Study of Cyber Crime Awareness among Female B.Ed. Trainees

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore the cybercrime awareness among female B.Ed trainees with respect to their type of and locality find the cybercrime awareness among female B.Ed. trainees. The increased dependence on internet has led to the rise of cybercrime. Cybercrime is a new wave of crimes using internet facilities. Problems such as lack of proper training and education, the poor awareness of cybercrime among female have also contributed to the growth in cybercrime. In the present study researcher adopted descriptive survey method to collect the data for the cybercrime awareness among adolescents. The sample comprised 200 college going female B.Ed. trainees was selected from government and private colleges. The female B.Ed. trainee belongs to rural and urban areas were taken from Sangrur and patiala district of Punjab. Samples selected using “Cybercrime awareness scale” constructed and validated by Rajasekar S. (2011). Attempts have been made to assess the impact of females and residential area upon cybercrime awareness level of female B.Ed trainee. The finding of the study shows the result of the study showed that the female B.Ed. trainees of government colleges are more aware of cybercrimes as compared to female B.Ed. trainees of private colleges. Moreover the finding of the study showed that the female B.Ed. trainees of urban areas are more aware of cybercrimes as compared to female B.Ed. trainees of rural areas.