From improper to acceptable: How perpetrators neutralize workplace bullying behaviors in the cyber world

How Do Individuals Justify and Rationalize their Criminal Behaviors in Online Romance Fraud?

“…The theory's philosophical underpinning gave a new direction and perspective to explaining other crimes and deviant acts. In the information system discipline, the theory has been used to explain illegal acts and deviant acts such as software piracy (Siponen et al 2012), cyberbullying (Zhang and Leidner 2018), and security policy compliance (Vance et al 2019). Most of the studies have examined a subset of the neutralization techniques namely denial of injury, denial of responsibility, denial of victim, condemning of the condemners, metaphor of the ledger, appeal to higher loyalties, and defense of necessity, when all the techniques may not be applicable.…”

“…While denial of the victim and metaphor of the ledger have been found to influence computer abuse intention (Willison et al 2018), only defense of necessity influences intention to violate security policy (Barlow et al 2013). The use of subsets has been employed in several contexts (e.g., Cao 2004;Zhang and Leidner 2018). In fact, rape offenders employed denial of injury, denial of victim and denial responsibility subset of neutralization techniques to justify their actions (Williams 1986).…”

“…In some instances, such thoughts provides basis for the offender to legitimize their victims (Williams 1986). Therefore based on the preceding and like (Zhang and Leidner 2018), in the study of online romance fraud , we use denial of responsibility, denial of injury and denial of victim subset.…”

“…The concept of denial of responsibility is the situation where offenders justify their action by claiming that they are victims of the environment (Evans and Porche 2005;Zhang and Leidner 2018). Such as in traditional romantic settings, a partner may claim that they are unable to attain a certain status because of their background, the love relationship or their environment (Boateng et al 2011).…”

Web Application Based on Analytic Approach to Assessing Workplace Bullying Behaviours

“…Young individuals, divorced, faculty members, and have chronic diseases were found to have high perceptions of bullying in the workplace and have an impact on increasing anxiety, depression, negative self-image, and hostility (Duru et al, 2018). Oppression in cyberspace or cyber-bullying in the workplace was found as a phenomenon that developed with fatal consequences, ranging from causing employee mental tension and low job satisfaction, to hostile organizational climate (Zhang and Leidner, 2018). The perpetrators of cyber-bullying in the workplace justified their bullying behavior and the results of cyber communication feature apparently influenced cyberbullying behavior in the workplace.…”