Title: Bayesian SEM analyses the cyber crime awareness in India

Authors: K. Ravichandran; S. Arulchelvan

Addresses: Department of Media Science, Anna University, Sardar Patel Road, Chennai-600025, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of Media Science, Anna University, Sardar Patel Road, Chennai-600025, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: Crime is a major phenomenon in the world and it is challenging normal life of human society in such crimes as murder, rape, robbery, and computer-related crimes. Cyber-related crimes have happened more to individuals and others. These computer-related crimes are the most important crime and challenging modern society by tracking, hacking, cracking, spamming and morphing through the online network. These trends in Indian media help in preventing cybercrime and creating social awareness to the public. This paper identifies prevention, victimisation, vandalism, terrorism, and impact of media and safety in the social media consolidate environment. In this emergent situation, media is playing an important role in creating cybercrime awareness. This complimentary aims to penetrate and recognise the relationships amongst the antecedents of impact of cyber news in the framework of the civic media incorporate environment by Bayesian approximation and suspect of the structural equation model.

Keywords: cyber crime; law; media awareness; structural equation model; SEM; Bayesian SEM; BSEM; India.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSS.2019.098194

International Journal of Society Systems Science, 2019 Vol.11 No.1, pp.51 - 84

Accepted: 07 Oct 2018
Published online: 05 Mar 2019 *

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