Module 5 Journal

Review the articles linked with each individual motive.  Rank the motives from 1 to 7 as the motives that you think make the most sense (being 1) to the least sense (being 7).  Explain why you rank each motive the way you rank it.

I believe each individual motive that makes a cyber offender commit the cybercrime in the article viz entertainment, political, revenge, boredom, recognition, money, and other reasons are really significant to affect their decision to commit the crime. If I need to rank these motives from 1 to 7 that what I think it makes the most sense to the least sense, I will rank them in this order:

  1. Money motive will be the first place in my rank that looks the most sense to me because we know everyone in this world wants money and even though money can’t buy happiness in your life, I guarantee you will suffer if you don’t have it. So, money is the easiest motive for cyber-criminal to commit cybercrime which makes them have a lot of money to use in their life.
  2. Revenge motive is the second place because I think revenge is also easy to make you commit something you know is wrong (not equal to money), but you want to do it for your justice in your opinion. So, it will be easy if you have the technical knowledge and technology to commit cybercrime against the person you have a conflict in the first place.
  3. Other reasons motives such as ego and power will be my third place because when you have the knowledge to do something that can affect the world even in a bad way, you will be needed in some way and may be proud of your action. So, if you can commit a cybercrime such as hacking some companies, you may be proud of yourself and be needed by illegal places such as the dark web which can be a motive for you to commit cybercrime but not enough 2 previous motives in my opinion.
  4. Political motive is the next one because I think when we talk about politics it always comes with different points of view in the society that always have people do some actions to show their standpoint and sometimes it is more aggressive than should it be. So, cyber offenders can be motivated by politics to make them commit cybercrime because they want to show their standpoint. It is a motive that makes sense, but I think the 3 previous motives that do just for themselves more make sense.
  5. Recognition motive is fifth place in this order because I think it is hard to make people commit cybercrime from the recognition experience that they realize they just can do it. However, I also believe it is possible for cyber offenders to have this motive, but it just looks not make sense to me.
  6. Entertainment motive is the sixth place because I think the cyber offender should not risk their life for just finding the entertainment but should have a serious motive as the 5 previous motives in my opinion.
  7. Boredom motive is the last place because it is a similar tier to the entertainment motive but I just think the entertainment motive more makes sense than the boredom motive because it also has cyber offenders who really like to commit cybercrime such as hacking because they see it as the entertainment to their life but for the boredom, I think people can find other ways that funnier than commit cybercrime to eliminate that boredom.   

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