Author(s): Kalpana Verma and Shalini Agarwal

Abstract:
Cybercrime is a kind of crime that happened in “cyber space”, that is crime that happens in the world of computer and the internet. Although many people have a limited knowledge of “cybercrime”, this kind of crime has the serious potential for severe impact on our lives and society, because our society is becoming an information society, full of information exchange happening in “cyber space”. Women are the sensitive part of society. The main objective was analysing the types and prevalence of cybercrime faced by working and non-working women. The research design was descriptive in nature. 50 respondent working and 50 respondent non- working were selected from different areas of Lucknow city. Total sample size was 100. The simple random sampling technique was used to collect the data. Results showed that both working and non -working respondents faced same type to cybercrime.