PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF CYBERCRIMES – AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

Psychological science of criminal behavior from a unique perspective. The web brings with it new crimes and new ways in which to commit previous crimes, and has the potential to create a criminal of the unsuspecting and naïve net user. This chapter introduces the reader to the realm of cyberpsychology and provides an outline of current psychological understandings of on-line crime. We tend to begin by considering crime typologies, outlining the classes of cybertrespass, cyberdeception and stealing, cyber-pornography and obscenity, and cyber-violence that have enlightened psychological theorizing during this space, likewise as highlight a number of the issues inherent among these categorization systems. We tend to then specialise in the psychological science of exploitation the web as a tool for brand new and previous crimes, wherever a wrongdoer might use the web as a “weapon” that has the potential to cause damage or harm. Here, we tend to specialise in the previous crime of domestic abuse that's committed through the new technology of the web and therefore the associated new crime of revenge porno that depends on the web and joined technologies to cause harm to its victims. We tend to end by considering a number of the difficulties of researching on-line crime from a psychological perspective and propose a requirement for psychological theorizing to manoeuvre removed from categorizing massive sways of gently connected crimes below umbrella labels. With this backdrop the present paper made an attempt to explain the psychological impact of cybercrimes and its various aspects.