Abstract

Cybercrime or the technology related crimes are increasing in this contemporary society and have preyed on not only the adult, but also the children are becoming an easy target in the hands of cyber criminals. The Internet has become an inevitable source for acquiring knowledge but this internet accessibility has various cons in establishing the privacy of a person and breach of security or personal information of a person. Especially when it comes into the phase of children, who does not aware about the proper usage of website and ending up in misery. The research paper strived to bring in the causative factor for the raise in cybercrime against children and also the research has attempted to various preventive, measures in the prevention of cybercrime against children. An empirical study is made on this research paper in order to torch out the present legislative blackening and controlling measures to prevent cybercrime and to protect children for the cyber criminals.

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