Assignment #2- Haksung Kim

Haksung Kim

Sociology 167

Professor: Timothy King

Oct 1st, 2013

Analyzing the cyber crime

- The summary of article

James Abrahams, The 19-year-old boy, was taken into custody on federal charges that he “sextorted” newly crowned Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf and other young women around the world by hijacking their computer’s webcams to capture naked images. Moreover, he used it to blackmail females as to young as 16 to provide even more images, videos and chat.

-Analyzing of article

These days, cyber crime is getting increase because the most criminal of cyber crime thought that this act would not exposure in real. By using anonymous, they always attack other and give harm to other. In this case, one curiosity became big crime and it makes the victim. In addition, the space is one of factor in this crime. The main space of crime is online and it is not exist in real. So Abraham was able to acting easily by only using computer. Invisibility is also one of factor of this crime. Abraham believes that this acting is not visible, so he would able to think that it was not a big deal. Since easily accessing others computer by connecting Internet, the cyber crime is on the rise each year.

-Reference

“Miss Teen USA ‘sextoration’: Family of suspect apologizes to victims (Los Angeles times) link: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-miss-teen-usa-sextortion-family-of-accused-sorry-20130927,0,4484632.story