American Journal of Information Science and Computer Engineering Vol. 2, No. 4, 2016, pp. 22-28 http://www.aiscience.org/journal/ajisce ISSN: 2381-7488 (Print); ISSN: 2381-7496 (Online) Plight of Youth Perception on Cyber Crime in South Asia Md. Kamruzzaman 1, 2, 4, *, Md. Ashraful Islam 1, 2 , Md. Shahidul Islam 2, 2 3 Md. Shakhawat Hossain , Md. Abdul Hakim 1School of Victimology and Restorative Justice, Institute of Social Welfare and Research, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2School of Criminology and Police Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh 3School of Food Technology and Nutritional Science, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, Bangladesh 4School of Law, National University, Gazipur, Bangladesh Abstract Cyber crime is a buzzword all over the world. Due to the global connectivity and online activities it has become a global concern, not a territorial one and is spreading in a terrific volume. In this regard mostly the young people are in vulnerability and being victimized by various means. The study aim was to access these states in South Asian developing countries (i.e., the demographic subdivision Bangladesh). The descriptive type of cross sectional study was carried out to assess the perception, causes and consequence of cyber crime among youth using purposive sampling method taking a sum of 118 respondents from Tangail municipality and Dhaka north City Corporation areas in Bangladesh. The study found most of respondents (46.61%) belonged to age group 19 to 21 years and 66.10% were male while 60.16% were in vulnerability of cyber crime by Internet fraud and 78.81% agreed that social media increase victimization by dissemination of false information (55.08%). It also found Maximum respondents (82.20%) were affected by virus attack, 56.78% were secondary victimized while most of them (72.03%) felt unsafe in cyber space and 61.86% said awareness can reduce victimization. Keywords Youth Perception, Cyber Crime, Hacking, Victimization, South Asian Countries Received: June 11, 2016 / Accepted: June 21, 2016 / Published online: July 15, 2016 @ 2016 The Authors. Published by American Institute of Science. This Open Access article is under the CC BY license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ offence committed against or with the help of a computer 1. Introduction network is identified as cyber crime”. So computer or computation related deviceis an essential for cyber crime Computer brings a revolutionary change in communication perpetration and victimization [1]. and socio-economic transaction by Internet. Being facilitated with the virtue of it, people can communicate very easily Computer crime defined as criminal activities, involving national as well as international level. Generally it is called information technology infrastructure, including illegal on-line communication. It is the vast source of data and access of computer data from or within a computer [2]. information. We can get any information from the Internet Cyber crime is a worldwide problem now; no country is world. Though it is the easiest way of communication, now it immune. The first cybercrimes occurred in India, Japan and is the matter of concern that abuse of computer and Internet china in 1820 (Techno focus cybercrime -A looming threat put together some people to commit crime and victimize 2008). After that it was increasing evolutionary and at mid of others. According to Council of Europe “Any criminal 20th century it became a problem of concern. Around the * Corresponding author E-mail address: [email protected] (Md. Kamruzzaman) 23 Md. Kamruzzaman et al. : Plight of Youth Perception on Cyber Crime in South Asia world and in Middle East and third world countries the causes of victimization among youth in South Asian growth of Internetconnectivity in recent years increase in countries [11-14]. cyber criminal activities [3]. Fafinski’s study asserts that in 2001 approximately 28.5 million people in the UK use the Internet [4]. Internet use in the Middle East had reached 2.5% 2. Materials and Methods of the total worldwide use by December 2007 [3]. The study was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted Different nations have adopted different strategies to contend at purposively selected Tangail municipality and Dhaka north with crimes depending on their nature and extent. Certainly, a City Corporation areas in Bangladesh. There were taken a nation with high incidence of crime cannot grow or develop. sum of 118youngfor the continuation of the study in full For Bangladesha nation that is in the process of development swing. A well-structured questionnaire was developed facing problems regarding cybercrimes. In Bangladesh containing both the open and closed ended query along with Internet was first introduced in 1996 [5]. Foskett said Internet observation to collect data interviewing the respondents in users are growing rapidly in Bangladesh especially in the the study areas. The gained collected data was checked and metropolitan areas. In 2000, the number of Internet users was further rechecked far away from the sample areas. The 100,000 and it shot up to 450,000 in 2007 [6]. In another questionnaire was formed in order to gain the relevant report says about 2 million people use Internet in Bangladesh information considering the dependent variables i.e., age [5]. Among this large number of people many people are group, level of education, residency, socio-economic contour being victimized by the devastating attack of cybercrime. and independent variable i.e., behavioural changing patterns Because of cybercrime people lost their money, identity and during January 2013 to June 2014. The questionnaire was many more. News of media and status those posted in the checked daily closing the field work, rechecked again after social media are the exemplary evidence of victimization. collecting all data and coded before entrancing into the Total number of cybercrime and victimization of cybercrime computer technology. The data was edited if seeing any is not revealed in Bangladesh, but the condition of other discrepancy (wrong entry, doubt entry etc.) and the data was countries can represent an overall image. In Canada by the processed to undergo statistical analysis using SPSS 16 year 2000 the 45,950 computer crimes reported by the windows program. Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel NIBRS and noted that most common type of computer crime were taken into consideration to focus the results using was larceny/theft [7]. By the years cybercrimes develop tabular, graphical and chart icon. besides technical development and by time it created new dimension of crime such as from telecommunication crime to 3. Findings of the Study electronic money laundering [8]. In the UK there were 92000 cases of on-line identity fraud during 2006 because of that From the study it is found that most of respondents (46.61%) average value of loss from 183.2 to 212.6 million pounds by belonged to age group 19 to 21years while 66.10% were card-not-present (CNP) fraud. 218.817 incidents of physical male and Religion of 92.37% were Islam (Table 1). harassment were recorded. In 2006 850000 cases of Table 1. Socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents (N=118). unwanted online sexual approaches occurred [4]. 38% Drug Importation cases, 34% Defraud the commonwealth cases, Parameters Frequency Percentage Age (years) 25% Child Sex related cases, 3% Counterfeit 16-18 43 36.44% currency/documents cases, 45% E-Crime, 11% Interpol, 2% 19-21 55 46.61% Counter terrorism, 42% Others (Fraud, Credit Card, Money 22-24 20 16.95% Sex Laundering) occurred in Australia during 2005 and 2006 Male 78 66.10% (Australian federal police: 4-5). The systems of NASA, US Female 40 33.89% Army, Navy and Department of Defence were hacked right Religion after the 9/11 attacks [9]. Spam is now a great problem in Islam 109 92.37% Hindu 9 7.62% cyber world everyday thousands of Spam spreading through e-mail and other way. Nearly 200 billion Spam messages are Table 2. Cyber-crime victimization phobia of the respondents. now sent each day, double the volume in 2007and that Parameters Frequency Percentage targeted attacks are also rising sharply and 90 percent of all Information Sourcesof cybercrime e-mails sent worldwide are Spam, this means 800 million Radio 4 3.38% Television 34 28.81% messages a day are attempts are spear phishing [10] which Internet 27 22.88% make our life problematic. Therefore, the current study was Newspaper 33 27.96% conducted to assess perception of cyber crime, nature and Others 20 16.95% Vulnerability of cybercrime types American Journal of Information Science and Computer Engineering Vol. 2, No. 4, 2016, pp. 22-28 24 Parameters Frequency Percentage 56.78% were secondary victimized and 38.14 were tertiary Internet fraud 71 60.16% victimized while most of them (72.03%) felt unsafe in cyber Hacking 48 40.67% space and 61.86% thought awareness can reduce Internet harassment 65 55.08% Identity theft 41 34.78% victimization. Virus attack 69 58.47% E-mail bombing 36 30.50% Table 3. Relationship between Repeat Victimization and types of cyber How use of social media increase victimization? crime. Harassment from fake id 32 27.12% Second time Third time More than third misuse of profile information 23 19.49% Types of experience of experience of time experience dissemination of false information 65 55.08% cyber crime harassment in chat room 30 25.42% respondents respondents of respondents 39 17 10