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Cyberstalking: Harassment in the Internet Age and how to Protect Your Family. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-275-98118-5; Ellison, Louise; Akdeniz, Yaman. "Cyber-stalking: the Regulation of Harassment on the Internet" Criminal Law Review. December 1998 Special Edition: Crime, Criminal Justice and the Internet. pp. 29–48. Meloy, J. (2000).
Cyberstalking may be an extension of physical stalking and may have criminal consequences. A target's understanding of why cyberstalking is happening is helpful to remedy and take protective action. Among factors that motivate stalkers are envy , pathological obsession (professional or sexual), unemployment or failure with own job or life, or ...
There are laws that only address online harassment of children or focus on child predators as well as laws that protect adult cyberstalking victims, or victims of any age. While some sites specialize in laws that protect victims age 18 and under, Working to Halt Online Abuse is a help resource listing current and pending cyberstalking-related ...
However, stalking cases are increasing rather than decreasing, with more than 20,000 people reporting cases to the police in 2013, and civil society organisations estimate that these are only the tip of the iceberg; Japan has seen the highest growth in stalking cases in the world in recent years, and stalking has continued to turn into homicide.
Cases of cyber-bullying are difficult to pursue in the United States due to infringement on First Amendment rights (i.e.: freedom of speech). [ 24 ] U.S. schools can take action on incidents that occur outside of school if there is either a clear 'disruption to the educational process' or a 'true' threat to one (or more) of the students. [ 24 ]
A deputy U.S. Marshal has been indicted in a cyberstalking case that claims he hired a man off Craigslist to engage in a “rape fantasy” with his wife so he could then frame his ex-girlfriend ...
John Thornton, 42, pleaded guilty in 2021 to a nine-count superseding indictment charging him with cyberstalking and making threats in interstate commerce. Las Cruces man gets five years in ...
Hands are shown typing on a backlit keyboard to communicate with a computer. Cyberethics is "a branch of ethics concerned with behavior in an online environment". [1] In another definition, it is the "exploration of the entire range of ethical and moral issues that arise in cyberspace" while cyberspace is understood to be "the electronic worlds made visible by the Internet."