Defi-crime: condition, trends and criminological models

Computer Crime: A Criminological Overview

This paper provides an overview of computer-related crime. Nine varieties of crime are considered: theft of services; communications in furtherance of criminal conspiracies; information piracy and forgery; the dissemination of offensive materials (including extortion threats); electronic money laundering; electronic vandalism and terrorism; telemarketing fraud; illegal interception; and electro...

Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory Neurology and Crime

Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory Brain Abnormalities and Crime

Criminological appraisals of psychiatric explanations of crime: 1936-1950.

Until the 1920s most North American criminologists echoed the viewpoints of European scholars. The major criminological works had been written by the Italian positivists Cesare Lombroso, Enrico Ferri and Raffaele Garofalo all of whom portrayed the criminal as pathological, the product of physical or mental abnormalities. They attempted to reveal, through scientific experimentation and controlle...

Trends in Computer Crime

SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS It is convenient to define computer crime as any criminal act which involves one or more computers either as the object of the crime or as accessories in its commission. Computer crime may then be subdivided into computer related crime (CRC) and computer assisted crime (CAC). In the former, the computer or its contents is the subject of the criminal act (eg hacking or deni...