Investigating online crimes youngsters

- Three out of ten young people (12-22 years) request is said online in the past year to have committed a crime, it appears Tuesday in the presentation of the juvenile monitor scientific research and Documentation Centre (WODC) of the Ministry of Security and Justice.

This relates for example to log on to a computer or network without permission, passwords change someone else, impersonating someone else on the Internet, threaten someone online or against someone's wishes sexually explicit photos of him or her send out. But as the online options become more complex, the possibilities in order to commit crimes with that too.

The coming months are going to do it wodc investigate the extent to which and the way young people are involved in cybercrime. Questions are inter alia the characteristics of youth who commit online crime. Are they the same characteristics as their peers who do offline? How big is the overlap between these groups? The study is commissioned by Minister Ard van der Steur.

,, Most preventive measures are aimed at young people who are guilty of crimes offline. The question is whether these measures work for young people who misbehave online, '' said wodc director Frans Leeuw Tuesday in The Hague, after the presentation of the monitor juvenile crime. Thereby have been extensively investigated for the first time online crimes.

,, Digitality is very complicated and is very fast, '' said Leo.,, Young people are increasingly engaged online, not only socially, but also possibly antisocial. ''

It is expected the first results of the study wodc end of 2016 ready.