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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 

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

EE  11/04  rev 4/08 ck2

 

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