Purpose

The study aims to determine the cybercrime awareness among secondary school students with reference to their gender and school management type.

Design/methodology/approach

For the purpose, a sample of 100 students from secondary schools situated in Lucknow city, state of Uttar Pradesh, India was selected. To obtain initial data from the respondents and to determine the cybercrime awareness categories a five-point Likert type cybercrime awareness rating scale exclusively constructed to fulfil the purpose of this study was used to determine the cybercrime awareness in five categories viz; excellent, high, above average, average, below average and low cybercrime awareness. Further, “t” test was used to analyse the difference between the means of groups.

Findings

Results revealed that gender (male and female) and type of school management (government and self-finance) are not significant predictors of cybercrime awareness among secondary school students.

Research limitations/implications

This study is limited to the government and self-finance English medium schools of Lucknow city, state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Practical implications

Policymakers, various societies involved in investigating cyber behavior/child computer interaction/safer communities, etc. should consider that school management is not a predictor of cybercrime along with gender and can look for other possible visible and latent factors affecting cybercrime awareness among students while formulating a policy or designing a course/prevention program for secondary school students.

Social implications

School administration should consider the existing gender and school management roles of the present scenario to make effective policies for the students and providing them effective cybercrime prevention programs and activities. Also, parents can adequately understand the role of school management type and gender of their belongings to understand their cybercrime awareness and take necessary measures accordingly.

Originality/value

The paper is focused on the cybercrime awareness of secondary school students and how their gender and school management type affects their cybercrime awareness. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is first of its kind which investigates the role of school management in cybercrime awareness of the students. As the education sector is depending more and more on the cyber world, this paper is of the great significance for the safety of education sector, organizations and communities involved in making the policies and designing the curriculum to avoid students being a victim of cybercrime and to make education sector a safer community.

中文翻译：

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中学生对网络犯罪的认识：性别和学校管理的作用

目的

该研究旨在根据中学生的性别和学校管理类型确定他们的网络犯罪意识。

设计/方法/方法

为此，我们选择了来自印度北方邦勒克瑙市中学的 100 名学生作为样本。为了从受访者那里获取初始数据并确定网络犯罪意识类别，我们使用专为实现本研究目的而构建的五点李克特型网络犯罪意识评级量表来确定五个类别的网络犯罪意识：优秀、高、高于平均水平、平均、低于平均水平和低网络犯罪意识。此外，“t”检验用于分析组均值之间的差异。

发现

结果显示，性别（男性和女性）和学校管理类型（政府和自负盈亏）并不是中学生网络犯罪意识的重要预测因素。

研究限制/影响

本研究仅限于印度北方邦勒克瑙市的政府和自费英语中等学校。

实际影响

政策制定者、参与调查网络行为/儿童计算机交互/更安全社区等的各个社会应考虑学校管理不是网络犯罪以及性别的预测因素，并且可以在制定时寻找其他可能影响学生网络犯罪意识的可见和潜在因素为中学生制定政策或设计课程/预防计划。

社会影响

学校行政部门应考虑当前情景中现有的性别和学校管理角色，为学生制定有效的政策，并为他们提供有效的网络犯罪预防计划和活动。此外，家长可以充分了解学校管理类型和物品性别的作用，以了解他们的网络犯罪意识并采取必要的措施。

原创性/价值

该论文的重点是中学生的网络犯罪意识以及他们的性别和学校管理类型如何影响他们的网络犯罪意识。据作者所知，这项研究是同类研究中的第一个，它调查了学校管理在学生网络犯罪意识中的作用。随着教育部门越来越依赖网络世界，本文对参与制定政策和设计课程的教育部门、组织和社区的安全具有重要意义，以避免学生成为网络犯罪的受害者，并使教育部门成为一个更安全的社区。