Cyber Victimology

Victimology or the study of crime victims has been suggested by criminologists for decades and many have written about his/her identification and explanation of his/her role in committing a crime,the outline of cyber-crime victimization fields and ways to support victims. Meanwhile, discussion about victims of cyber crimes that has been long added to the legal literature is very important so that knowing them as victims of new generation of crimes is so significant.Thus, some foreign authors on the basis of Lifestyle-Routine Activities Theory and Learning Theory have explained the cybercrime victimization that accordingly in this paper, cyber-crime victimization were surveyed and it was found that cyber crime victims are divided into two general categories: they have had a direct role in their crime victimization or they have prepared the way for their own crime victimization indirectly and there are a few victims who are not in these two categories. The analysis of cyber-crime victimization is based on three factors: the offender was provoked, appropriate target,and lack of capable protective force that have utilized these factors to explain cyber victimization in this paper and concluded that external and situational factors have major roles in committing cyber crime victims.