Effect of Gender and Residential Area Upon Cyber Crime Awareness

Cybercrime is a crime in which computer and network are necessary. Finding any computer at a criminal place or commitment of any crime through computer is called cyber crime. Network is involved in computer crime. Obtaining and misusing someone’s personal information. Taking away or stealing someone’s personal information from the computer is also a cyber crime. The present study aims to find out the effect of types of gender and types of residential area upon cyber crime awareness of adolescents. The study sample comprised of 100 adolescents, who have been selected with the help of randomized sampling technique from various villages and cities of Almora district of Uttarakhand. Out of 100 adolescents 50 were boys (25 rural and 25 urban) and 50 adolescents were girls (25 rural and 25 urban). The age range of the sample was between 13 to 20 years of age. For the collection of data on Cyber crime awareness “Cybercrime awareness scale” constructed and validated by Rajasekar S. (2011) has been used. The finding of the study shows that (i) there is no significant effect of gender upon cyber crime awareness of adolescent. Both girls and boys have shown almost equal level of cyber crime awareness. (ii) There is a significant effect of type of residential area (urban and rural) upon cyber crime awareness of adolescents. In the study cyber crime awareness level of urban adolescents was found higher than the rural adolescents. (iii) The interaction effect of types of gender and residential area upon cyber crime awareness of adolescents was not found significant. Both groups’ adolescents (gender and residential area) have shown almost equal level of cyber crime awareness levels.