CYBERCRIME; ITS PERCEPTION ANDEFFECTSONUNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITYOFBENIN

Over the decades, the increasing growth of cyberspace more commonly known as the internet has ushered in a new problem, the problem of cybercrime. Cybercrime has been a commonproblem in Nigeria from the early 2000’s and it has only gotten worse, and it’s costing the country of Nigeria in more ways than one. The majority of its perpetrators are undergraduatestudents in universities. This paper seeks to truly understand the ideology and perception of cybercrime fromthe university students’ perspectives. What pushes them to commit this crime and disregard possibleconsequences and why its common in universities especially and at the end of this research, propose a solution to the relevant authorities on how the problem can be solved.