Although computer fraud continues to be a thorn in the side of many organizations, fresh perspectives to addressing this type of crime are rare. This paper advances a preventive approach which reduces those criminal opportunities that permit computer fraud to take place. The construction of crime specific opportunity structures, which enable the relevant parties to conceptualize the fraud envir...

Computer crime is the use of information technology in any suspicious criminal activities. Recently, our life becomes increasingly depending on modern information technology; however, it becomes very important to improve the computer crime investigation procedure especially in cases of processing very important and sensitive information such as government and military intelligence, banking info...

In July, 1965, in the face of dramatic rises in reported crime and delinquency rates, the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice (sometimes called the Crime Commission) was created. One area selected for special attention in the Commission's final report was the potential contribution of science and technology in the generally labor-intensive field of law en...

While hackers and viruses fuel the IS security concerns for organisations, the problems posed by employee computer crime should not be underestimated. Indeed, a growing number of IS security researchers have turned their attention to the 'insider' threat. However, to date, there has been a lack of insight into the relationship between the actual behaviour of offenders during the perpetration of...

The purpose of computer forensic is to make digitalevidence which can be accepted in court using wellorganized technic and according to reasonable process in computer crime investigation. Recent forensic technic field is developed every year, however computer crime isn't. Especially, there are lacks of definite procedures such as collection, transfer, analysis of evidence, report evidence to th...

Crime statistics from the US Bureau of Justice and the FBI Uniform Crime Report show a gap between reported and unreported crime. For police to effectively prevent and solve crime, they require accurate and complete information about incidents. This article describes the evaluation of a crime reporting and interviewing system that witnesses can use to report crime incidents or suspicious activi...

In recent years, a number of surveys have indicated a significant escalation in reported incidents of computer crime and abuse. This rise is coupled with increasing attention to the issue in the mass media, which has the effect of heightening public perceptions of problems with IT and may represent a barrier to the adoption of technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web. This paper con...

information technology development has deeply affected all aspects of social, economic, cultural, life including criminal law. this development has forced lawyers and policy makers of these areas to reflect deeply. differences between traditional and cyber crimes are such that long standing conventional criminal policy can no longer tackle them. transnationality, easiness of occurrence, anonymi...