Innocent Victimization of Cyber and Social Networking Crime: An Empirical Assessment among the Graduate Students of Tangail.

Mohammad Ashraful Alam, Amit Sarker, Dr. Md. Jahangir Alam

Abstract

Social Networking means to bring the world closer, foster unity and make us all part of happy social village. With the tide of recent times, the Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Ning, Digg, MeetUp, blogs, etc., have become a hotbed for online criminals because of their global reach and the participation by hundreds of millions of active users from all walks of life. The present study voyages through discovering dimensional orientations and impishness of cybercrime in social networking in student life. Purposive sampling method was used for selecting study area and as well as respondents within the study areas. About 121 respondents were taken for the intended study. The study has identified the practical strategy of Social Networking crime among respondents; dimensions of criminalization & behavioral orientation of cyber offenders on their target. Also has determined the aspects & impacts of victimization and sufferings of the respondents in real life context. Variation in offending & victimizing found in terms of geographical location, age, religion, gender, and monthly income of family members. Factors of counter measures for defending cybercrimes on Social Networking crime should needed to be some security measures to reduce the possible victimization and also have to improve the efficient and better safely in online communication & sharing on Social Networking Sites.

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