Cyber Crimes Against Women

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CYBER CRIMES AGINST WOMEN IN INDIA
KONGALA. RAMARAO*
MANDALI.KRANTHI .KUMAR**
DR.Y.ASHOK KUMAR***
“The widespread circulation of such content is particularly harmful for women the pervasive gender discrimination in our society is further heightened since the digital medium provides the convenient shield of anonymity and fake identities. Errant persons become more emboldened in their offensive behaviour since it is presumed that they will not face any consequences” K.G.Bala Krishnan,Former Chief justice of India.
Modern mechanisation and urbanisation has brought total disintegration of the family institution. This has created serious problems in human life, especially crimes against women. …show more content…

A Cyber crime was classified into majorly three types. Cyber crimes against individual, cyber crime against the all forms of the property, cyber crime against the society. Cyber crime is a generic term that refers to all criminal activities done using the medium of communication devices computers, mobiles phones, tablets, etc., the internet, cyberspace and the World Wide Web. The cyber crime is the crime, which occurs in the cyber space. In cyber crime computer is used as a tool, a target, as incidental and as associate. Cyber crime also known as computer crime can be defines as criminal activity directly related to the illegal use of computer and a network, for unauthorised access or theft of stored or online data that can be used for several criminal activities against a victim. Internet using is high on day today life .a Number of new generation crimes effecting the LAN, WAN, and internet have created extraordinary …show more content…

Women are participating very active in different socio-economic activities in India, like bur crates, employs, officers, managers, and different jobs, in this connection woman also using the internet and computers. Especially working women harassed by their contemporaries. Harassment includes blackmailing, bullying, and even cheating via- email.
Cyber stalking
The oxford dictionary defines stalking as “pursuing stealthily”. Cyber staking is repeated use of the internet or other electronic communication to harass or frighten someone .this may be done over social net working media, like face book, twitter etc or over e-mails.
Pornography:
Advanced technology and internet may be considered the facilitator of the cyber crimes like cyber pornography. Women and children are becoming the major victims of this flip side of technology.

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