Stalking Research Paper

“Stalking to be made specific criminal offence” – Cameron. According to Section 39 of Criminal Justice Act 1988, it has given that common assault and battery shall be summary offences and a person guilty of either of them shall be liable to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, to imprisonment for a term of not exceeding six month or to both. Stalking is an action directed at a specific person that would make a reasonable man to feel threaten and can be charged under assault. It is a serious crime and offence that under the Protection Against Harassment Act 1997. Regarding to the question given, that online harassment has become the phenomenon especially when the population of Facebook has increased rapidly since 2008. Here, we need to deal with the existing law and settle the questions about how is the stalking occur in social network sites and how much it could affect our life. At first, we should know that the definition of “Assault” is the defendant intentionally or recklessly causes the victim to apprehend imminent and unlawful force or violence. Under Section 47 of
This situation is obvious in the circle of young people. Experts have classified this as “cyberbullying”. These abuse people they spew online are things that they will never say in the real life, people with lack of accountability has gave them the opportunities to misbehave and the speed of our information technology also make it easy to shoot off an insult without thinking wisely. They can make those offensive comments by using their real identity. They will not feel obliged to control their comments in SNS probably is because most of the people they met in there are strangers. The Public Order Act 1986 contains two offences relating to harassment: (1) Harassment, alarm or distress (s.5) (2) Intentional harassment, alarm or distress