Review Article
Year: 2020 | Month: May | Volume: 7 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 89-98
Causes of Cybercrime Victimization: A Systematic Literature Review
Abu Taher Muhammad Abdullah1, Israt Jahan2
1MA Criminology, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK.
2MA Digital Media, School of Computing and Digital Media, London Metropolitan University, UK.
Corresponding Author: Abu Taher Muhammad Abdullah
ABSTRACT
A systematic literature review on causes of cybercrime victimization has been done for this study to explore the severity of cybercrime. While 111 articles from Scopus and ASSIA databases were thematically analyzed to find trajectories of factors of cybercrime. Cyberbullying are prevalent among various forms of cybercrime. It is evident that adolescents are most targeted victims of cybercrime. It observed attitude, low self control, psychopathic behaviors, bystander behavior, social inequality, more use of cell phone and Internet, and school delinquency as the main causes of cyberbullying. Particularly, older member of the society is responsible for online fraud. The causes of online fraud found vulnerability, greed, trust, naiveté, strong emotions, access to internet from home, lack of awareness, and chronic underreporting of cybercrime. In addition, software piracy, online harassment and computer hacking as cyber deviance caused due to availability of personal information in Social Networking Sites (SNS), socioeconomic, psychosocial, and geopolitical aspects, pornography, sexual promiscuity, minor daily stressors, living without parents and less active offline social life. Crypto market is a new form of cybercrime where criminals maintain a website to keep them anonymous for drugs dealing. Breakup of relationship and coercion to woman by male counterparts are the causal factors of cyber stalking and sexting respectively. However, follow up strategy, warning, sanction and educational programs were identified as prevention initiatives. Hence, this study is not beyond the limitation of empirical observations which will be the future research initiative to construct reporting mechanism of cybercrime.
Keywords: Cybercrime, Cyberbullying, victimization, fraud, deviance, online, victims
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