CCJS418B Seminar in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Cyber Investigations
Prerequisite: CCJS100, CCJS105 Th 4:00PM – 6:45PM
Cybercrime research has grown in visibility and importance
during the last two decades. Nevertheless, despite the growing public interest
in cybercrime and its consequences for businesses and individuals, only scant
attention has been given in the criminological discipline to investigation and
understanding of this new type of crime. The purpose of this course is to
introduce students with the technical, social and legal aspects of cybercrime
as well as expose students to theories and tools that enable scientific
exploration of this phenomenon.
In the first few weeks of the semester we will
learn about the computer and the internet, and discuss several definitions and
typologies of cybercrime. Then we will discuss the hacker, the victim and the
IT manger, review various theories of crime causation, and assess the relevance
of these theories in the context of cyber space. We will then describe several
technical tools that allow the collection of data from the Internet. We will
conclude with a discussion on the legal issues affected and created by online
crime.
