• E4J University Module Series: Cybercrime

• Module 12: Interpersonal Cybercrime

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Online child sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Cyberstalking and cyberharassment
  • Cyberbullying
  • Gender-based interpersonal cybercrime
  • Interpersonal cybercrime prevention
  • Conclusion
  • References

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

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• First published in May 2019, updated in February 2020

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Conclusion

 

People are entitled to use the Internet and share information and communicate with individuals online free from abuse and violence. However, the reality is that the online environment is not free from such abuse and violence. Children and adults can be (and have been) sexually exploited, sexually abused, bullied, harassed, cyberstalked, and extorted online by people in various parts of the world. These cybercrimes come at great costs to victims and the adverse impacts of these cybercrimes can be irreversible. For this reason, appropriate legal and technical measures are needed at the national, regional, and international levels to counter, combat, respond to, and prevent these interpersonal cybercrimes.

 

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