How does cyber technology impact interactions between offenders and victims?

Cyber technology does indeed impact interactions between offenders and victims. Cyber technology is continuing to grow in our society and not everyone uses the cyber world as they should. Initially, it takes way longer to know you’re a victim of a crime when computers/ technology is involved. A lot of people do not know exactly what to look for when it comes to cybercrimes and when they do notice something is off it is way too late. It is a lot easier to become a victim with cyber technology because there are so many aspects that you could get “attacked” from.

When you hear the words offenders and victims your mind is going to go directly to a crime that happened face to face. For example, an offender shoots and kills the victim on the street and runs away. When people are in public they are always looking around at their surroundings and sometimes even prepared for something to happen, but when it comes to cyber technology no one Is ever ready or prepared to be attacked.

Offenders can easily stalk people and gain so much information about their personal life just from looking at the pictures, tweets, and words they post on all their social media accounts. When some people post things on Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, or Facebook about their life you never think that an offender is reading those things and planning to use them against you. Another example is that an offender can appear as anyone. You could easily be using a dating app to talk to a guy and share your personal information with him because he tells you what you want to hear and when it comes to meeting in person it could be someone completely different, which could put you in danger.

Cyber technology makes it so much easier to have an interaction between an offender and victim, but it comes in all sorts of ways, and no one expects it to happen to them. The cyber world makes it scarier, easier, and allows the offenders to be sneaky.