Cybercrime in Assessment

An Assessment Model for Cybercrime Investigation Capacity

Digital technologies are constantly changing, and with it criminals are finding new ways to abuse these technologies. Cybercrime investigators, then, must also keep their skills and knowledge up to date. This work proposes a holistic training development model – specifically focused on cybercrime investigation – that is based on improving investigator capability while also considering the capac...

Fundamental Issues in Criminalization of Virtal Cybercrime

This paper tries to investigate the question of how virtual cybercrimes fall within the realm of criminal law and what their principles and conditions of criminalization are. Despite the large number of Internet users in virtual worlds, such as "Second Life", there has been limited literature and research especially on the extent and scope of the issue, the identity of the perpetrators and vict...

Text Mining and CyberCrime

This chapter describes the state of technology for studying Internet crimes against children, specifically sexual predation and cyberbullying. We begin by presenting a survey of relevant research articles that are related to the study of cybercrime. This survey includes a discussion of our work on the classification of chat logs that contain bullying or predatory behavior. Many commercial enter...

Center for Cybercrime Studies

A Survey of Cybercrime

Cybercrime is a kind of crime that happens in "cyberspace", that is, happens in the world of computer and the Internet. Although many people have a limited knowledge of "cybercrime", this kind of crime has the serious potential for severe impact on our lives and society, because our society is becoming an information society, full of information exchange happening in "cyberspace". Thus, it is n...