The Detailing of Cyberstalking

In my writing I am focusing on cybercrime and further detailed cybercrime and cyberstalking. I would present my findings from the Qualtrics survey from three semi-structured interviews and, I will compare and contrast what did the authors said and found in this topic in my literature review to my findings.

Cybercrime is a new-found area of crime, it was a side effect of the digital revolution, existed since the 1990’s, that emerge as a major international issue in 2004. Cyberstalking is an entirely new form of divergent comportment that uses technologies to harass further in several ways. Generally stalking or cyberstalking is comprising one person bullying another, in some extreme scenarios might lead to fraud, identity theft, sexual abuse, information stealing, impersonation, consumer scam, pc monitoring and attacks by political groups on government service industries. (Most worryingly pornographers and paedophiles have begun to apply cyberstalking as a way of locating the sufferers of them.)

Studies on stalking actions proved that the motivation behind cyberstalking could vary. The types of the intentions can be sexual provocation, obsession for love, retaliation or hate (could me the major causes of cyberstalking), and ego and power trips (showing off their skills). Cyberstalking is most common in university pupils in the United States and in Europe. It can be said that nearly one in every five persons wish turn out to be a victim of stalking in their lifetime, and females are almost two and a half time more likely than men to be targets (Spittzberg, 2002).

Several studies identified attributes associated to age gender and ethnicity of tracking offenders. They are mainly (59,7%) between the age of 19 and 30 (Bjorklund et al, 2010). The study also estimates that the offenders are mostly males (91,8%). It was also stated that the male cyberstalker victims was usually males as well.

In the newest study on cyberstalking carried out in December 2018, The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimates that 4.9 million grownups in England and Wales have experienced stalking or harassment in their life. The difference between stalking and persecution is that stalking is characterised by offender’s persistence, fixation and obsession, for example stalking can persist over many months or years. Stalking is a sequence of acts dedicated over some time, but abuse can be charged on the basis of one threat, even one threatened in the future. Some group are more targeted than others. Women are twice likely as men to experience persecution, with mixed race females and individuals aged 20-24 years at greater risk. 55,17% of females have been abused online associated to males.

The resulting data table shows 64 (55,17%) of females and 39 (68,42%) of males who answered the question said they had been a victim of cybercrime. In a quantitative research we test the connection between two variables like the gender and being a sufferer of crime in order to see if the relationship is statistically significant.