Analysing cybercrime awareness among adolescents of district Anantnag

Abstract

In the contemporary world, cybercrime has provided ample space for propagating the unethical usage of internet. In pursuance to same, the aim of the study was to explore the cybercrime awareness among male and female adolescents of Anantnag District of central Kashmir. Cybercrime awareness scale developed by Shalom Saini, Parminder Kaur (2008) was used for data collection. 300 male and female adolescents were selected from different educational institutions of Anantnag District. The collected data was put to suitable statistical treatment by using Frequency Distribution, Percentage, Mean, S.D and ‘t’ value. The results of the study indicate that there is significant difference between male and female adolescents on their level of cybercrime awareness. Male adolescents were observed with high level of cybercrime awareness as compared to female adolescents.