MANIFESTATION OF THE DEVIANT AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN CYBERSPACE Cover Image

МАНИФЕСТИРАЊЕ НА ДЕВИЈАТНО И КРИМИНАЛНО ОДНЕСУВАЊЕ НА МЛАДИТЕ БО САЈБЕР ПРОСТОРОТ
MANIFESTATION OF THE DEVIANT AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN CYBERSPACE

Author(s): Dragan Stefanovski
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, Studies in violence and power, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: CENTAR MODERNIH ZNANJA
Keywords: adolescents; anonymity; cyber bullying media; peer violence;

Summary/Abstract: Every generation of young people faces challenges, which can understandably move in two directions, a positive one that follows the path of legislation, and a second one that "chooses" the path of the deviant and delinquent, hoping that in that way will achieve their goals. The young people discussed in the paper face the problems brought by global change, local military conflicts, covid pandemic, which all together "flows" into the whirlpool of the increasingly common global phenomenon better known as poverty. Visible changes in family relationships, presence of dysfunctional families in which center of aggression and intolerant behavior are born in young people that are reflected in the spectrum of forms of peer violence. It is obvious that the modern family and the school shyly lacks with the "conducting baton” in their upbringing. The rapid technological development has led to its "abuse", especially in cyberspace, and by young people, where they appear as delinquents, but also victimized. In this sense, the anonymity of cyber bullying gives greater strength and comfort to the perpetrators, causing the victims to be stressed on a daily basis. Theoretical-empirical study is aimed at researching the situation with cyberbullying in the Macedonian society, more specifically in the city of Skopje, in terms of the role of modern mass media regarding of the early detecting of the phenomenon of cyberbullying in all its forms, especially the above mentioned, as well as the consequences that is manifesting not on the victim but also on their families.

  • Issue Year: VII/2022
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 433-441
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Macedonian