Cyberstalking: Harassment in the Internet Age and How to Protect Your Family

by Paul Bocij

Book Overview

Cyberstalking is an entirely new form of deviant behavior that uses technology to harass others in a variety of ways. In less than a decade, our reliance on the Internet, email, instant messaging, chat rooms, and other communications technologies has made cyberstalking a growing social problem that can affect computer users anywhere in the world. This is the first book devoted entirely to an examination of cyberstalking, providing an overview of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275981185
• ISBN13: 9780275981181
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Very Infomative Book For Victims Of Cyberstalkers!

I am a victim of a cyberstalker. EVERYONE should read this book so that you do not become a victim as well... and if you do, learn how to protect yourself!

Shows how new technologies can lend to harassment

Harassment in the electronic age has moved beyond the realm of in-house and in-person to the cyberspace realm - and Paul Bocij handles common cyberstalking issues in his all-important Cyberstalking: Harassment In The Internet Age And How To Protect Your Family, which focuses not just on legal recourse but how the average individual can avoid cyberstalking on the internet. Bocij is a former university lecturer, writer and consultant: Cyberstalking shows how new technologies can all too easily lend to harassment - and what can be done to prevent technological harassment routines.