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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
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:

Academic Search Complete	Expanded Academic ASAP	OmniFile Full Text Select Edition
General Business File

 

FULL-TEXT NEWSPAPERS: America's Newspapers

 

SUGGESTED INTERNET SITES:

Cyber Crime	http://www.atf.treas.gov/firearms/index.htm
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/
University of Michigan	http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/cybercri.htm

 

CITING YOUR SOURCES:

University/College Library Citing Electronic Resources

http://ucl.broward.edu/Cite_Your_Sources.htm

EE  11/04  rev 12/08 ck2

 

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