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Cyber Victimology: A New Sub-Discipline of the Twenty-First Century Victimology

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Notably, some scholars do not perceive cyber crime victimization as a new form of victimization and some do not holistically group them. Invariably, many countries are dealing with cyber crime victimization through their conventional laws, without creating specific laws. These kinds of new issues have paved way to study the cyber victimization from different perspectives. I emphasize the need to have a sub-discipline of Victimology i.e., Cyber Victimology to examine cyber crimes purely from victims’ /victimization perspective, as I believe cyber crime victimization is a new form of victimization. This chapter will dwell on the establishment of the new field of Victimology, which is referred to as Cyber Victimology.

Some parts of this chapter are derived from earlier publications of the author: Jaishankar, K. (2012). Victimization in the Cyber Space: Patterns and Trends. In S. Manacorda (Ed.). Cybercriminality: Finding a balance between freedom and security (pp. 91–106). Milan, Italy: International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC). ISBN 978-88-96410-02-8 Jaishankar, K. (2013). Cyber Victimization: New Typology and Novel Trends of Interpersonal attacks on the Internet. In Korean Institute of Criminology (Ed.). Information Society and Cybercrime: Challenges for Criminology and Criminal Justice (pp. 31–47). Seoul, Korea: Korean Institute of Criminology. Research Report Series 13-B-01.ISBN 978-89-7366-002-5. Reproduced with permission.

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