YOUTH CRIME AND THE ORGANIZED ATTRIBUTES OF CYBER FRAUD IN THE MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL AGE: A THEMATIC REVIEW

This paper establishes a link between the hitherto known traditional organized crimes and modern cyber fraud. The transnational context of fraud in the e-business environment promotes exclusive anonymity, transactional secrecy and unprecedented vulnerabilities relatively higher in impact and far above any documented assessment of organized crimes that preceded it. Mostly implicated in this emerging trend considered in this criminological discourse are the youths, commonly referred to as the Net Generation. Uniquely, these categories of people are doubly victimized. Just as they suffer acute deprivation socio-economically, they are also systemically made representable under the criminal justice arrangement of most nations due to their incessant involvements in illicit activities. Finally, the paper made an advocacy for prompt state intervention towards arresting the precarious situations impressing it upon the youths to adopt unconventional means to attain survival.