The National Conference of State Legislatures (2013) defines Cyber stalking as the use of the internet, email or other electronic communications to stalk. It generally refers to a pattern of threatening behaviors or malicious intent. The NCSL considered it the most dangerous of cyber harassments. According to the Louisiana statute, Cyberstalking is the actions of any person to perform the following:
• (1)Use in electronic mail or electronic communication of any words or languate threatening to inflict bodily harm to any person or to such person’s child, sibling, spouse or dependent or physical injury to property of any person or for the purpose of extorting money or other things of value from any person.
• (2)Electronically mail or electronically communicat to another repeatedly, whether or not conversation ensues, for the purpose of threatening, terrifying or harassing any person.
• (3)Electronically mail or electronically communicate to another and to knowingly make any false statement concerning death injury illness, disfigurement, indecent conduct or criminal conduct of the person electronically mailed or of any member of the person’s family or household with the intent to threaten, terrify or harass.
• (4) any who knowingly permits a communication device under a person’s control to be used for the actions in subsections 1,2,or 3 (LA RS 14:40.3)
Now knowing what Louisiana says is cyberstalking, what makes the communication become a crime? According to the Louisiana laws as we read, it becomes a crime when someone fears for their safety or the safety of their family. General electronic communication is by far becoming a more normal way of communication in today’s world. However, when that communication starts to become threa...
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...ver his case will not be settled until he first settles a previous case of drunk driving in Florida. (Crabbe, 2010)
The last case we will look at involved a man named Gary Dellapenta. Back in 1999 he was charged with using the internet to solicit the rape of a woman who rejected him. Dellapenta posted internet ads on the computer giving out her address, ways to circumvent her alarm and that she had fantasies of being raped. Her father posed as a responder and was able to back trace the IP address to Dellapenta. Dellapenta plead guilty and received three counts of solicitation of sexual assault and was given six years in prison. (Man Charged, 1999)
In conclusion we find that cyberstalking is one of the most dangerous forms of stalking. People who feel safer harming others from far away use this method the most, and like regular stalking it can cause serious damage.
“Stalking is conservatively defined as "a course of conduct directed at a specific person that involves repeated (two or more occasions) visual or physical proximity, nonconsensual communication, or verbal, written, or implied threats, or a combination thereof, that would cause a reasonable person fear." [1] Stalking behaviors also may include persistent patterns of leaving or sending the victim unwanted items or presents that may range from seemingly romantic to bizarre, following or laying in wait for the victim, damaging or threatening to damage the victim's property, defaming the victim's character, or harassing the victim via the Internet by posting personal information o...
Stalking is most commonly defined “...as non-consensual communication, and/or harassment of another person” (Spitz). Stalking can be ruled as a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the severity of the actions, but it is not considered illegal if one is not threatened or in potential danger. There are two types of stalking; one involves the victim and stalker having a personal relationship with one another, while the other involves the two having no connection at all (Accomando and Anderson). Stalking consists of the repetition of undesired and frightening acts from the stalker, and it is a major violation of privacy (Accomando and Anderson; Wigman). Over
Such was the case of Ohio high school student, Jesse Logan, who sent nude photos to her boyfriend who then sent them to other students who harassed her until she committed suicide.2 Currently, there are laws in place against minors sexting and sexting to minors and they fall under the child pornography category. While the laws are intended to protect minors from sexual predators, what most minors do not understand is that they are subject to them as well. This means that, if fifteen-year-old Timmy decides to sext his fifteen-year-old girlfriend, Sarah, a naked picture of himself, both Timmy and Sarah could be tried in court on charges of disseminating child pornography and possessing child pornography. These serious charges can result in having to register as a sex offender for several years, although the message may have been sent and received consensually by both parties. This was the case for an 18-year-old Iowa boy who sent a nude picture of himself to a fourteen-year-old girl after she asked him repeatedly to do so.
threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of
of Sex Offenders Via the Internet. The John Marshal Journal of Computer and Information Law
creating fear to another party of experiencing battery; a touch considered unlawful by the law.
Cyber violence generally involves using the Internet to threaten,
Cyber stalking, has been defined as the use of electronic communication including, pagers, cell phones, emails and the internet, to bully, threaten, harass, and intimidate a victim. Moreover, it can also be defined as nothing less than emotional terrorism. Cyber stalking can take many forms’. However, Ellison (1999) suggests, cyber stalking can be classified by the type of electronic communication used to stalk the victim and the extent to which the communication is private or public.
There have been many examples of cyberstalking crossing over in to real life stalking. And those users who have been victims of cyberstalking, tell a similar story, that no one took the harassment serious until it became real life stalking. Cyberstalking can be a devastating experience for a person online. But in cyberspace people say things like “well just turn off your computer” and “ you can’t be hurt on the Internet, it’s just words”. (Laughren, 1998, p.1) The online stalking is just as frightening and distressing as off-line stalking, and just as illegal.
Cyberbullying is more than sending direct message to someone and calling them out there name. Cyberbullying is when someone makes a fake page or post something anonymously to a direct person to make them feel bad about them self’s, but cyberbullying can also someone preparing to be someone else to attract a certain persons attention. Cyberbullying is not only online, but it’s also on TV. How is that you wonder. Cyberbullying is on one of MTV...
First of all, if a crime doesn't result in a physical loss, can it even be considered a crime? Theft on the web is, in actuality, the theft of an idea. If an idea is placed on the web, is it not open for everyone to see, experience, or even take? Is a rape in cyberspace really a rape if there is no physical contact? Author James Harrington says "This attempt to censor cyberspeech raises two major constitutional problems: Can the government limit access to sexually explicit information on the internet to adults who want it, and, if so, who decides what is 'offensive' and thus punishable?" (Harrington 157). It is true that these cyber crimes and their outcomes cross the line from VR to RL in the sense of emotion for many. People have been made to feel violated by other users many times, and one good example of this is shown in Julian Dibbell's essay "A Rape in Cyberspace". Criminals, such as Mr. Bungle, have their fun and log off, leaving other users in a state of victimization. These virtual criminals should be punished, but how can users defend themselves until a means of punishment is decided upon?
In today's society, many aspects of crime are committed on a regular basis. Civilians take advantage of people all the time using online resources such as fraudulent websites requiring credit card information to get a free monthly trial. Other examples of cyber crimes include online chat websites, full of predators, or websites needing a downloadable program that contains a hacking virus. Sadly, there are many cases of cyber crime all over the internet. The acts of cyber crimes are considered violent acts like any other.
Violence against women is not always physical. With the continuing advancements in technology, cyber stalking is an increasing way for predators to attack women. “Cyber stalking is the use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk someone which may be a computer crime or harassment.” The anonymity of interacting with someone online makes it very easy to stalk someone without even leaving home. Cyber stalkers have a sense of security that since they are not seen, they will not be identified. It is estimated that over 75% of victims are women. This estimated figure is lower than the actual number because a large majority of cyber stalking goes unreported.
According to Wikipedia.com cyberstalking is the act of stalking someone via the means of electronic devices. This incudes online threatening and or harassing behaviour that an individual engages in repeatedly. This is in most cases potentially dangerous only if someone manages to get a hold of your email address otherwise this form of harassment isn't really that much of a problem . If someone is harassing you in a chat room simply leave. I don't believe this crime is a big problem amongst us today. Although some people may be left in uncomfortable situations and in a worried state of mind that this person may eventually catch up with you in the long run.
One of the dimensions that make this a difficult issue for administration to control is that cyberspace is forever changing. Thus providing bullies a multitude of avenues to dole out their damage. “Christian leaders can impact character thus this should be one of their goals” ( LU Presentation a, slide 2, 2010). Educational leaders need to learn the many facets of this new terror tactic. Methods include texting derogatory, harassing messages on mobile phones, with students showing the message to others before sending it to the target; sending threatening e-mails; and forwarding a confidential e- mail to all address book contacts, thus publicly humiliating the first sender; flaming; posting obscene, insulting, and slanderous messages to online bulletin boards, online exclusions; or developing Web sites to promote and disseminate defamatory content; outing, sexual in nature, such as publicize that a target is homosexual, whether true or not; hostile takeover of another person 's account; cyberstalking, entails a threat, or at least a belief, that the virtual stalking could become real stalking; and voting/polling booths. The latest trend involves teachers as victims. At Providence High School in Charlotte, NC on January 2008, the student charged used a Facebook message board to post a link to a website with the