In consideration of the Cyberbullying Inquiry Terms of Reference (b) on the application of section 474.17 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code, any discussion on the adequacy of the penalty and subsequent amendments must recognise the potential of minors to be affected. Cyberbullying is a common issue in the 8 to 13 age group, along with young adults. Child victims should be protected by rigorously legislation, and cyber-bullying that results in self-harm or the taking of their own life would seem proportionately to require a sentence harsher than the current three-year imprisonment maximum. While unopposed therefore to an increase in this penalty, it should be recognised this should be proportionate to the penalties of the more serious charges
Cyberbullying is generally geared towards the younger generation of the youth, however, there has been cases where adults have been victims as well. In 2008 there was a case of cyberbullying that was carried out by a Missouri mom Lori Drew where she concentrated a public spotlight on the damage and abuse that speech in social media can cause to children and even convinced the advancement of a new legal idea on how to approach to understand that harm and to deal with the harm. The 49 year old Lori Drew created a MySpace account by the name of “Josh Evans,” (Steinhauser, 2008, para. 8-11) who was a teenage boy. The purpose of the creation for this account was to begin a dialogue with her very own 13 year old daughter’s former friend Megan Meier.
Cyberbullying is becoming more typical, especially among teenagers, and this has raised questions about how to prevent bullying from occurring. The schools want to maintain a safe environment for learning, one of the questions being asked is “Should schools be allowed to limit students’ online speech?.” This is the wrong way to pursue the bullying crisis*. Limiting online speech violates our* constitutional rights, students are not the only ones being bullied/ being the bullies, and this is just a method of communication. Limiting online speech could take away what little voice teenagers have, your words are powerful.
Someone might argue that if people do nothing against cyberbullying then it might lead to physical violence and that shouldn’t happen. In source 3 it states “ the lack of immediate emotional feedback in cyberbullying allows aggressors to often continue the hurtful behavior unchecked.” This tells us that cyberbullying happens and often continues because they don’t have emotional feedback from being there and unlike cyberbullying people “immediately see the hurt they have caused to the target” which most people wouldn’t do. What should happen is cyberbullying prevention in schools to deter people from and warn others of the effects of cyberbullying. In source 1 it states “And bypassing the Prevention Act, we’re deterring people from engaging in cyberbullying by showing such behavior punishable by crime that won't be tolerated” although I don’t agree with the punishable by crime statement I do think that people should be warned and deterred from cyberbullying in
1.0 Introduction As we come into an increasingly technologically based future, Australia, as a nation and a society, is facing more and more of one particular form of offense- cyberbullying. Unfortunately, despite greater efforts to counter it, the practice is quickly becoming one that current laws cannot control, and it’s about time Australians considered a change. The simple truth is that existing laws are inadequate and outdated, and, in order to protect our children, and our loved ones, a better solution is required. 2.0
Technology has expanded over recent years, and internet use has become excessive. An increasing amount of children are using the internet without sufficient scrutiny. The age of consent in the United Kingdom is sixteen, for this essay children will be described as those below this. This essay will be using arguments of sexualisation, child pornography, and cyber stalking to explain why the internet can cause criminal conduct. However, counter arguments such as, the normalisation of sexual images of children, and the relativeness of the definition of cyber offences as a crime will be presented.
Loo Huan Ting ID #: 02359329 CMST 180 Tuesday & Thursday 2:20 11/13/14 Annotated Bibliography The invention of the Internet has created a new space for bullying. McClatchy, Komolafe Kaz. “States seek ways to fight newest form of bullying” St. Paul Pioneer Press. 25 August 2012:
This is the first century and technology has never been better. It has become so advanced that it has opened up opportunities for jobs, learning, and bullying. It is now easier than ever to bully someone all hours of the day, and to make the bullying follow them wherever they go. Cyberbullying never used to be much of a problem, in fact it didn’t use to exist. But now with all the new technology, and all the freedom online cyber bullying happens everyday.
Annotated Bibliography Brody, N., & Vangelisti, A. L. (2017). Cyberbullying: Topics strategies, and sex differences. Computers in Human Behaviors, 75, 739-748. Doi:10.1016/j.chb.2017.06.020 There are multiple strategies to cyberbullying, the most common strategies include public and private comments, photographs, and status updates. Cyberbullies use these strategies to make someone feel less than what they are.
An underdeveloped individual will always have some judgement passed on them, whether it be in the open or online. Online or ‘cyber’ bullying has become the number one focused-upon issue circulating around teenagers in New Zealand. Bullying online causes severe mental anguish to those it is directed at, and can cause depression, anxiety and stress because anonymous messages can appear at any time with little way to identify the origin and who is sending them. Bullies online have been proved by several psychologists to be less empathetic and lack of empathy in teenagers is another serious issue caused by technology. The amount of violent material available on the internet may cause a person to slowly lose empathy for others, which leads them to become more violent themselves.
Fast innovations, such as the Internet, are constantly changing how people interact. Although this development has been approved human beings to make great progress in many areas, they have also allowed the form of violation to become more widespread. This is evident when looking at how traditional bullying has grown became today's issue known as cyberbullying. Although bullying and cyberbullying are often similar in shape and their technique also has a lot of difference. Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying allows offenders to close his identity behind the computer.
There are many risks that come with the internet and with mobile phones as well. With every risk there is going to be a consequence for e.g when you post a picture online you lose control of that picture and people may take it either the wrong way or the could use it for leverage in cyber bullying.
In the age of technology it is said to say that 33% of youth have been victimised by cyber bulling. This to me is a worrying statistic. Therefore it is vital we explain the risks and possible of consequences of been online and using a mobile phone to children and young adults. There are so many things that could be potentially unsafe for children and young adults on the internet; Cyber bullying - as the statistic about suggests, children and young people are open to cyber bullying.
It is no wonder why people experience these depressing feelings, because cyberbullying, as defined in Source One, is, “[Any behavior that] must be repeated, hostile, and severe with the intent to embarrass, threaten, or harass.” Cyberbullying is extremely bad for one’s physiological health. However, as presented by Kirk Sigmon, author of “Sacrificing the First Amendment to catch ‘Cyberbullies’,”“[T]he idea that hurt feeling justify criminal prosecution at all is an offensive use of the criminal justice system…” However, cyberbullying is not an issue that should be ignored; it needs to be presented to attention so that it may be stopped. Cyberbullying is hurting other people and ruining their lives, not to mention the quantity of people affected due to the availability of technology in our daily
Cyberbullying Cyber bullying has been a big part of a teens life that 's where they get mistreated by other people. Throughout these years cyberbullying has been increasing really fast especially in school grounds, bullying has been a major part of the school to because that 's where teens notice who they like and they dislike. The main focus on cyber bullying comes from where one person does not like that other person so they prefer to make fun of them instead of friendship. Cyberbullying can also have a major impact on a teens life that can make them do something that they will regret doing, they do that because they think that there is no way to get away from it so they decide their own way to deal with it. There 's different varieties of levels where they take little steps or even bigger steps, cyberbullying can occur in middle school level of in a high school level.
It might be a small thing but it can destroy someone’s life. Do you know what I’m talking about? I’m talking about cyberbullying. Statistics shows that over 80% of teens use a cell phone regularly, making it the most popular form of technology and a common medium of cyberbullying. Statistics also shows that both boys and girls are likely to be cyberbullies or the victims and it affects all races.