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CYBERCRIME

 

DEFINITION:  “Cybercrime.  Crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs. (The Free Dictionary.Com by Farlex.  Copyright © 2004 Farlex, Inc.  Available online: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cybercrime/ )

 

 NARROW THE TOPIC:

·         How is cybercrime similar and different than the criminal activity that is committed not using a computer?

·         What are the some of the specific activities that this new sub-category of crime includes?

·         How is the very technology that created opportunities to commit crime for the cyber criminals helping to catch them?

·      What has been the response of  national and international law enforcement agencies to this new tide of criminal activity?

·         How would someone's right to privacy be possibly violated by computer-related crime?

·         What methods are used to detect and prevent cybercrime?

                               

LINCC SUBJECT HEADINGS:  Computer crimes; Internet fraud (also appears elsewhere as Internet Crime, E-Crime)

 

SPECIALIZED SOURCES SHELVED IN THE REFERENCE COLLECTION:

Encyclopedia of Business and Finance	REF HF 1001 .E466 2007 v.1
Criminal Justice   “Computer Crime” “Cybercrime”	REF KF 9214.5 .C75 2006
Criminal Justice	REF KF 9214.5 .C75 2006
Encyclopedia of White-Collared & Corporate Crime, “Internet Fraud,” pp. 439-441	REF HV 6768 .E63 2005

Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Ethics "Hacker Ethics"

REF Q 175.35 .E53 2005

Opposing Viewpoints: America's Youth

 

AVAILABLE AT THE REFERENCE DESK:

CQ Researcher "Controlling the Internet" 5/12/06

Issues & Controversies  "Internet Gambling"   p. 441-449 11/10/2000;“Key Events in Computer Hacking”  p. 179 5/12/2000; “Key Events in Internet Gambling” p. 443 11/10/2000; "Military Internet Security" p. 230 6/08/07

 

STATISTICS: Information Plus: Crime; Prisons, and Jails ("Computer Crime")Ref Desk (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Database)

 

ELECTRONIC INDEXES:

Academic Search Complete	Expanded Academic ASAP	OmniFile Full Text Mega
General Business File

 

FULL-TEXT NEWSPAPERS: America's Newspapers

 

SUGGESTED INTERNET SITES:

“Computer Crime” in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_crime
Cyber Crime	http://www.aic.gov.au/topics/cybercrime/definitions.html
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation	http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/cyberhome.htm
University of Dayton School of Law: Cybercrimes	http://www.cybercrimes.net/
U.S. Department of Justice: Computer Crime	http://www.cybercrime.gov/
E-Crimes	http://www.police.wa.gov.au/AboutUs/SupportServices/CrimeInvestigation.asp?E-Crime

 

CITING YOUR SOURCES:

University/College Library Citing Electronic Resources

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EE  11/04  rev 4/08 ck2

 

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