The Relationship between Cyber Crime and Mental Illness

Abstract

In this paper an attempt is made to describe the relationship between cyber crime and mental illness. It will create awareness among people about cyber crimes and criminality due to mental illness. Computers and the internet make many actions easier for us. They also make many unlawful activities easier for criminals such as the sharing of, copy right infringement, stock manipulation, child pornography and a range of scams. In order to understand the criminal activity it is important to understand the main factor behind the criminal activity for e.g. mental illness.