Criminal Harassment and Threats of all Kind
People sometimes refer to criminal harassment and other similar types of behavior as online predators, child predators, harassment or criminal harassment. For our purposes we will refer to this type of behavior in an online criminal harassment. Online criminal harassment generally refers to the use of repeated electronic communications to cause another person to feel like they or a member of their family is being threatened. The legal definition of harassment, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is:
"A course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress in such person and serves no legitimate purpose" or "Words, gestures, and actions which tend to annoy, alarm and abuse (verbally) another person."
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