Internet and Delinquency: Challenges on Necessity or lack of Limiting Accessibility

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This paper will first offer a comparative approach to patterns of delinquency in virtual and real world but will focus on delinquent behavior in virtual world. The paper introduces a typology of delinquent behaviors that are performed through internet but will focus on four of them. The paper then tries to provide answers to questions such as : why is internet becoming means for performing delinquency? Should access to internet be supervised or limited? I will then provide an overview of speculations on whether state supervision should performed on access to internet. In the end, I will propose solutions that can be used to diminish internet-based delinquent behaviors.

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