SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CYBERCRIMES IN A STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALIST CONTEXT

CYBERCRIMES

Abstract

Throughout history, societies have lived through different social life stages. With the invention of the plow, it has passed from hunter and gatherer societies to agricultural societies, to industrial societies with the invention of the steam engine, and finally to the stage that Daniel Bell called post-industrial societies depending on the developing information and internet use. Societies have taken different measures against the types of crimes that arise depending on their changing social life. Especially the types of cybercrime emerging today have necessitated studies for the protection of societies (nationalities) in the digital environment. Cybercrime, which has emerged due to the development of technology and the internet, is seen as an important threat to security today. In this context, the main purpose of the study is to examine cybercrime in a sociological context by examining the approaches of structural functionalists to crime. The main reason for choosing cybercrime is the lack of security measures to prevent it as an emerging threat, as well as the lack of sufficient studies on its social effects in the social sciences literature. In the study, information about the structure and social effects of cybercrime is given by using the data obtained by qualitative research methods. As a result, cyber crimes; It has been concluded that it is a social phenomenon that increases dependency and solidarity by necessitating interstate cooperation, triggers progress with software and tools developed for the struggle in the technological field, and finally determines change and social boundaries with the addition of new laws in the legal sense.