Historical Context of Digital Crimes and Obscenity in India

This article traces this historical trajectory, highlighting how regulations have sought to protect societal values against the encroachment of permissive ideologies. Same is applicable in other western countries, as dressing sense of western people, even a century ago was covering whole body with multiple layers of clothes. The Victorian code of covering whole body changed the perspective. When Europeans entered in Bharat, they found that people living here were having variety of clothing depending upon their region and based on the environment. Continue reading …..

Criminology Perspectives on the Digital Transformation of Online Vice

The 2000s heralded the internet’s mass adoption in Bharat, transforming obscenity from tangible media to ubiquitous digital content. With broadband penetration rising from 0.2% in 2000 to over 2% by 2010, platforms like Orkut and early YouTube facilitated easy access to explicit material, redefining “lewdness” as instantaneous and borderless. Continue reading …..