It has been argued by those who oppose legal consequences for online behavior that cyberbullies should not hold blame for the reaction of their target. In The New York Times article “Bullying, Suicide, Punishment,” Professor of Law and cybercrime specialist, Orin S. Kerr, expresses his concern that offenders need to be prosecuted for the crime they committed and not for how their victim responded, releasing the cyberbully of any ownership of what occurs after the offense. In this line of thinking, should the courts also be expected to stop charging robbers with first-degree murder after they “accidentally” murder their victim while committing their initial felony? No, because whether it they intended to cause the victim to commit suicide or not, the act was a result of their crime, for which they should be held accountable and punished. Cyberbullies should be held accountable for the outcome of a victim after or while bullying and should be punished relatively to that. …show more content…
Some parents lack the time and computer skills to be able monitor their children’s online activity. Often, afraid of revenge or insufficient action, the victims do not report the abuse to authorities, leaving the parents and school administration unable to manage the violations effectively. However, as pointed out by Wendy J. Murphy in the article “Federal Law Requires Schools to Protect Children from Cyberbullying,” in the cases that the schools are made aware of the viscous attacks of cyberbullies, because they are not required to intervene in events that happen off-campus, they are hesitant to get involved. Referring back to Tyler Clementi’s case, the school knew about the bullying by his roommate, but failed to take action, potentially missing an opportunity to get the law involved and prevent Tyler’s
Cyberbullying has become more of a problem over the past years. With technology being in such high demand and there being endless options. Students can use and abuse technology in a negative light. Since technology isn’t going anywhere cyberbullying will only worsen. The First Amendment rights along with the school’s handbook, student handbook and states policies and procedure are meant to protect students from such harm. A students’ rights and privacy must be protected with such things implemented and actions are taken cyberbullying can become
People might view cybercrimes in a contrasting way than traditional crimes. However, they are the same but occur in various situations. Both types of crimes are similar in nature but the scenarios and environments are different (Gordon & Ford, 2006).
In the article “Cyber-bullying Is Worse than Physical Bullying”, Meech discusses how harmful cyber-bullying is because of the long term effects it has on a child or young adult. He then uses a few statistics to illustrate his main point. “In March of 2006 statistics showed that 75 to 80 percent of 12 to 14 year olds had been cyber bullied”(Meech). That means this problem is occurring more and more in today’s youth. Unfortunately it’s difficult to stop the cyber-bullying from happening because often times they can’t identify who it is spreading rumors or making threats. That means that if a parent wanted to report the harassment, most times kids make up a fake name or a fake account so they can harass anonymously and that would make it hard to catch the culprit. Meech begins to discuss...
A young boy was once sitting on his computer when he saw an email from one of his peers. He opened the email, and soon enough realized he was being bullied. However, the young boy let the cyber-bullying get out of control. His parents told the school about it, but there was nothing they could do. The boy had to go to a new school where he wouldn’t be bullied. There are many problems like this that get out of hand, so much that the school can do nothing to help. Many people blame the school for not helping, when there is nothing they can do about it. Therefore, schools do not have the responsibility to respond to and protect students from the challenge of cyber-bullying, even if it’s off campus.
Track back to 15 to 25 years ago. An unfortunate student would normally get bullied at school with physical acts of violence, but as soon as that student arrives at his home he or she is presumed safe. Cyber bullying does not allow this luxury. Cyber bullying occurs over the information waves of the internet, with sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google plus. Which is why the guidelines must be improved or that children should not be allowed to access such sites entirely. With a the tools of direct messaging and posting videos cyber bullying can follow children to their home, beyond the school playground, seven days a week 24 hours a day. These acts of emotional trauma occur on a child’s computer and smartphone. For this reason it is more difficult to monitor...
Crime is often sense as an event that simply affects the one person that the crime was committed against, in reality, crime has a very deep and wide rooted effect on many people that can be victimized directly or indirectly. In today’s world, the internet has become a tool that many criminals use in order to commit crimes against people and therefore victimize individuals. Amanda Todd is an example of an individual who was victimized by other individuals with the use of the internet and because of her sever victimization many other individuals were victimized due what Amanda Todd sadly faced. This paper will discuss the effects of victimization on Amanda Todd and the backlash for society from the crimes committed
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In the schools today computer technology is part of a child’s curriculum. Some schools are implementing a internet usage contract ( waiver), this contract or waiver will make the schools exempt from liability. students will be liable for what they do on-line. If schools are using these types of contracts they are not addressing the problem of cyber-bullying. If the issue of cyber-bullying is not addressed children will make the decision to take matters into their own hands. When this happens children think that revenge is their only option to protect themselves. Revenge can then turn into violence. This is when children start bringing guns and her types of weapons into school. Studies show that each day 100,00 students carry a gun to school (American Justice
students aged 12 to 17, 16.8% of boys and 17% of girls have been cyberbullied in the previous 30 days of the sample (Document A). These numbers show how common online bullying is among young people. It stresses the need to take action quickly and set rules to control how people behave online in schools. By imposing limitations on online speech, schools can mitigate the harmful effects of cyberbullying and create a safer digital environment conducive to learning and well-being. In considering the need for regulating students' online speech, Russlyn Ali asserts in Document G, "Harassing conduct may trade many forms, including verbal acts and name calling; graphic and written statements, which may include use of cell phones or the internet; or other conduct that may be physically threatening, harmful, or humiliating" (Document G).
Each year, schools are having to update the Code of Conduct in order to keep up with the bullying that is occurring on social media. Schools have failed to effectively monitor and take action upon what these students have been doing to others and what others are doing in return. This has resulted in many lost lawsuits, in which schools were held liable for not taking appropriate action on what occurs outside of campus. School districts therefore must take more responsibility over what happens to the students, on and off campus. Districts argue that such instances are outside of the school’s control, however, these victims are still their students.
By monitoring where bullying occurs and making sure that they are safe for a student can be extremely helpful. Lawner and Terzian identify that bullying happens where adults aren 't watching and call these places “hotspots”. They say “Research suggests that much bullying behavior occurs in “hotspots”— areas with low levels of adult supervision, such as a playground, bus, or cafeteria.” This only proves that bullying happens everyday usually at the same area, yet no one is there to see or help. Adding supervision by placing adults in areas like this would decrease the issue in that children are being watched causing the victim to feel safe and the bully intimidated. Since bullying is being turned to online, administrators should have the right with permission from the victim to see what the bully is posting on there page. Bullies usually have more than one victim and administrators being able to access the bullies internet pages so that they could identify more easily who they are attacking. Although I stress the importance of supervision, it is important to also make children feel a sense of freedom and by adding too much supervision school can quickly turn into a prison style monitoring
over an extended period of time. Since the Ryan Halligan case in 2003, there has been a string of cyberbullying suicides which have made states and school districts react by imposing policies to deter and essentially criminalize cyberbullying which happens on and off campus. The issue at hand is whether state legislature and school districts enacting laws and policies regarding students’ speech in terms of off campus cyber speech, is interfering with the students’ free speech rights. Three Supreme Court cases have been cited in recent cyberbullying cases, in the context of the speech of students and the authority of the school district; Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), Bethel v. Fraser (1986), Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988).
If a crime doesn't result in actual physical damage or loss, can it be considered a crime? Or is any act that leaves a victim feeling violated a punishable crime? One way to look at the issue is through the approach that yes, cyber rape and other crimes are punishable. This can be argued through the fact that these crimes effect "real" life and stir up "real" emotion. It is a punishable violation because it involves actual victims and makes them feel violated. Another position is that because these violations can be avoided by the press of a button or the click of a mouse, they are in no way punishable and are more of a game than anything. The internet is something that effects most people, and anyone who logs onto it can become a victim to cyber crime. If found in the situation, users should know what exactly is at stake. In this essay I will examine both sides of the argument, and explain why I personally feel that cyber crimes cannot be prosecuted as actual crimes.
This sort of phenomenon makes major headlines regularly in recent times and effects a clear majority of today’s youth. State and local lawmakers have taken steps to prevent this type of bullying by making illegal under several criminal law codes. Michele Hamm, a researcher in pediatrics explained, “There were consistent associations between exposure to cyberbullying and increased likelihood of depression.” Cyberbullying became widespread among students with the rapid growth in use of cellular devices and the Internet. With this kind of technology bullies have the ability to send harmful messages to their recipients at any given time. This type of bullying is the hardest to control because it involves students but often happens off school grounds. However, because the evidence is material, students and parents could bring this evidence to the school and local police departments if a situation were to happen. Parents should be mindful of their child’s use of the internet and electronic messaging, cyberbullying usually takes place in a medium in which adults are seldom present (Mason, 2008). Also, instead of sending direct messages to other students, bullies use platforms such as social media and anonymous blogs to post harmful things for others to see. Educators must understand the significance of social media use to their students, especially
With technology progressing, students are moving past face to face hectoring, and are verbally bullying other through social media. Cyberbullying can sometimes become more harmful than verbal, physical, and emotional bullying due to victims, not feeling like they have an escape route because they are threatened repeatedly through text messages, e-mails, social media, etc. The worst part about cyberbullying is that the things posted can be anonymous; therefore, there is no blame for who posts what. A victim can suspect that someone is to blame for the actions done, but there is no proof to solve a possible ongoing issue. Cyberbullying and bullying are actually considered a crime when someone: physically assaults another person, gender or racism is talked about, violent or deadly threats are made, sexually texting, inappropriate photos, stalking,