ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the discussion of victimization within the digital environment. Cybercrime victimization or cybervictimization has been tracked consistently in the United States since the early 2000s. In many ways, the digital world is best thought of as an extension of the physical world within which we interact. Compared to the relative consistency in measured effects for the aforementioned age and gender categories, accounting for one’s racial classification tends to vary greatly in producing evidence of correlation with cybervictimization. Routine activities studies of cybercrime victimization focus on the various interactions between motivated offenders, target suitability, and capable guardianship that influence victimization risk. Cybervictimization results in a variety of direct negative impacts on digital identity, digital assets, software/hardware integrity, and device performance. Online harassment has been proven to produce high levels of fear and distress and notably among female audiences when the harassment stems from a relationship of intimacy.
