Arts & Humanities Journal

Title: Crimes against Social Safety and Public Chastity in Cyberspace and Suggesting Preventive Measures

Abstract:

Current study investigates the crimes against social safety and public chastity in Cyberspace and suggests preventive measures. Regarding that current study attempts to develop knowledge of crimes against social safety and public chastity, the research method is of developing nature and can be considered descriptive-analytical study. Main goal of the current study is investigating the cyberspace and cyber means in crimes against social safety and public chastity, understanding the fields where the related crimes occur, getting familiar with legal and criminal rules and criminal contents in cyberspace. Results of the study indicate that the prevalence of cyber crimes in different social fields leads to various damages in the society in which the most important ones include devastating moral bases and principles of social system that impose inevitable damages to the economic, politic and cultural systems of the society. The more cyber technologies develop, the worse would be the cybercrimes related to immoral norm-breakings. Therefore, current study suggests developing moral programs parallel with social norms, taking objective training and protective measures, creating a public informative space and getting people familiar with cybercrime and its negative effects, presenting moral educations proportional with age and gender to prevent this devastating phenomenon.