A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CYBER CRIME SECURITY AWARENESS AMONG TEENAGERS.

The advent of e-technology has brought variety of opportunities and some of these, not surprisingly, are of a criminal nature. The Cyberspace created by computer technology provides a medium for doing many things in efficient manner. The automations use of machine replacing human hands provided great opportunities and options. The connected computer machines have created a different world called Cyber world or cyber space. It is a different world altogether, quite different from our real world! Due to special nature of this Cyberspace the cyber criminals get maximum opportunity to commit crime. Cybercrimes are committed by using mobile phones, computers, scanners, digital cameras and other electronics devices. In the modern educational field rapid changes are happening in a vast country like India. Enormous developmental work is now being done in the field of education so as to enable students to get a better vision of life in other parts of the world and scientific development around the globe. The “Internet” in India is growing rapidly; it has given rise to new opportunities in every field: - be it entertainment, business or education. Internet also has its own disadvantages; one of the major disadvantages is “Cyber-crime” i.e, illegal activity committed on the internet.