INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN SCIENCE (SSI 3013)

ESSAY
CYBERCRIME

Name Sandra Meru Juvita Binti Soumin Ng Seng Wei Nordiyana Binti Mohd Zom Hanida Binti Nor Azlan

Matric No. D20091035087 D20091035100 D20091035105 D20091035124 D20091035129

There are a few factors that lead to cybercrime activities. Parental influence is a great factor in the upbringing of any individual. It has been proven from psychological studies that neglected children and those who are victims of parental abuse are more likely to commit crimes later in their lives. Poor parenting can happen for different reasons and will manifest in a variety of ways. Physical abuse shows a lack of coping skills on the parents part. Exposing children to violent, illegal or sexual behavior shows lack of insight into appropriate parenting. Excessive criticism or demeaning children are signs of having poor parenting skills. Learning good parenting skills will help children be happier and have a greater chance of success in life. There are many support options for parents, including classes, support groups and community outreach programs. According to PubMed, one of the most common reasons for lack of parenting skills is low socioeconomic status. Parents living at or below the poverty line often have less access to parenting resources. There is a larger chance of having inadequate healthcare if youre struggling financially. Teen parents might have a hard time developing parenting skills, as they may not have the emotional or financial support to effectively parent. Young parents can be more immature and less capable of making the sacrifices sometimes required of parents. Parents that have substance abuse issues might be more likely to make bad parenting choices. Other than that, cybercrime is caused by peer influence. Mostly people spend more time with peer whether at school or workplace compare to their time spent with their family. Firstly, they want to be liked, to fit in and to be accepted. This usually happens to the new students at school. Since they do not have any friends yet, they try to join any groups so that they will not be alone. Once they are accepted into a certain group, they have to do what the other members do. If they do not receive the challenges that are put in front of them, they could be banned from the group. They are also afraid that they might be looked down upon or made fun of by other person. Most of the bullies look for any lonely person. It is easy for them to bully the person and made fun of the person as the person is weak when he or she is alone. Besides that, teenagers are always curious to try something new whatever they see from their friends activities. It is normal for teenagers that already reach puberty. They feel like they are not up to date if they do not do it. For them, peers understand their needs better than their parents. This is because they are in the same range of age as their peers and of course their likes are almost the same. It is also in process to free them from parental control. Next, these friends are the only ones that they have even though they are not the suitable friends for them. It is like a kind of friendship.

Drugs and alcohol abuse is also one of the factor that cause crime. The urge to commit crime to support a drug habit definitely influences the decision process. Both drugs and alcohol impair judgment and reduce inhibitions, giving a person greater courage to commit a crime. Deterrent such as long prison sentences have little meaning when a person is high or drunk. Drugs and alcohol abuse may cause the drinker or drugs offenders lost their judgments to do something because they take it in big amount and it makes them drunk. These are the situation where they will commit crime. In United States, one survey shows that about 67% of childbeating cases, 41% of forcible rape cases, 80% of wife-battering, 72% of stabbing and 83% of homicides, either the attacker or the victims or both had been drinking. A case at Muar, Johor which a man attack 30 children and 4 teacher at Pusat Asuhan dan Didikan Serikids and take them as his prisoner was doing that crime because he was hallucination cause of drugs abuse. Nowadays, drugs dealers trying to deliver their things to the buyer. But, they have a problem with the security check, especially at the airport. That is why they using others to do the jobs. Drugs mules always become the victims to become drugs dealers. This is also a crime that needs to be handling seriously and we need to fight the crime. Only this year, about 315 people are arrested because they become drugs mules. Drugs always involve gangs. They are very cruel and will not only sitting down when someone or other gangs try to interrupt their business with drugs. Just like what had happen at Mexico, where a man and a woman are found hanging on a bridge with a blackmail note on the body. They give warning to people not to reveal any information about drugs dealers on the internet. This is one of the scariest crimes happen involve drugs. For sure, drugs and alcohol abuse is the factor of crime happen. Another factor that contributes to the cybercrime is the level of income and education. The educational level and the amount of income are much related between each other. Nowadays, the amount of income is very crucial as to support the life cost since it increase exponentially by times. For those who get low income, they try to find out the good way to improve their income level as they wish to have a good life style. However, because of their poor educational backgrounds, they have done mostly low wage jobs but only gaining small amount of income. They have to make a choice either long-term low income or the prospect of profitable crime. It is impossible to them for gaining further education, since the classes to attain can be expensive and consuming lot of times. Therefore, some of them cheated others through the cyber medium which they take it as a shortcut for them to get high income. By using online business application

such as eBay, mudah.com, lelong.com and so on they act such a very professional online businessman by register the fake account. Through those website, they pretend to offer the online customer the certain item with the lower prices which if we buy with the normal price, we cannot get as low as offered by them. Because of the very attractive offer, without thinking wisely, the customers accept it and paid for the item they like. Usually the will bank in the payment to the seller account and as the seller noticed, he will give the customer post tracking number for the item. When the customer checked the tracking number, they noticed, it is fake and realized they have been cheated since the sale item does not exist. Besides, this cybercrime does not happen because of the trick created by the criminal, but it also due to the low education level of the customer. It also becomes the main factors why cybercrime spread out nowadays. As the low educated people become the main victim, they also the sources of contagion for this criminal happen. Normally, they are easily cheated through the advertisement in the newspaper, websites, magazines and so on. Most of them become the victims because they are searching the way to improve their life style. The most common trick use by the criminal is by offering multilevel marketing and also part-time job. For the part time job, it is spread out silently in our daily life. The criminal will offer the easy job which people can handle it even they at home. They offer the high income for the easy job for the short-term. For those who are interested with the offer, they are asked to pay a few amounts as the fee to join the activities. After have done their jobs, they really get the luxury payment but just for a few times. However, most people do not realized it is kind of cybercrime since it is very tricky since most cases are unreported because lack of awareness among the victims. That is why we need to have the knowledge about Information and Technology (IT) as to avoid ourselves from being the victims of cybercrime such reported on 24 July 2011 in page 13 of Berita Minggu, Buta IT punca jadi mangsa. The effects of violence on television what has our society come to these days. Everywhere we look, violence is present; in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. Even if one might be a pacifist, violence will seep its way into our homes through the television. Does violence on television cause children to be violent? There are many people that say this is true but there are also many people who believe to be false. We live in an era where both parents are often working and children have more unsupervised time so its easy for them to watch different kinds of shows without parental consent. The people who say violence on television does cause children to be violent site psychological research. They say four major

effects of seeing violence on television are they becoming "immune" to the horror of violence; they gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems; and they imitate the violence they observe on television. Perhaps the most important way to prevent children from watching television violence is to stop it where it starts. The parents should step in and turn the set off when a violent program comes on. The parents are the childs role models from which he learns. If they can learn at an early age that violence on television is appalling, then they can turn the set off for him when they are older. Education should start in the home. In the nutshell, cyber crime are caused by few factors including poor parenting skills, peer influence, drugs and alcohol, income and education and television violence. Therefore, all society should work together in order to reduce the statistic of cyber crime.