U/CL Pathfinders
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 Encyclopedia of Psychology & Law REF K 346 .E53 2008 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
AVAILABLE AT THE REFERENCE DESK:
CQ Researcher "Controlling the Internet" 5/12/06 Opposing Viewpoints: America's Youth 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:
FULL-TEXT NEWSPAPERS: America's Newspapers
SUGGESTED INTERNET SITES:
Cyber Crime
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/cyberhome.htm University of Dayton School of Law: Cybercrimes
U.S. Department of Justice: Computer Crime
University of Michigan
CITING YOUR SOURCES:
University/College Library Citing Electronic Resources
EE 11/04 rev 12/08 ck2
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