Cyber Crime

Introduction

This research paper is a summary of Cyber Crime in contemporary electronic age where majority of data transfer is done electronically. This paper considers basic concept of Cyber Crime, legal aspects of Cyber Crime, Prevention and Victim Services and likely victims of internet and cyber offending. This paper shows a detailed insight on contemporary legal implications of Cyber Crime and its impact in modern society.

Discussion

Victimization in society results from many types of harmful behaviors committed by individuals or groups against other people. Behaviors considered negligent or abusive, or that otherwise are considered criminal in a particular place, often depends on the amount of harm inflicted, the technological means employed, and existing laws that forbid specific activities. Technological means used to commit cyber offenses refers to a combination of networked systems, hardware devices, software tools, and methods that people use on the Internet (Corbett, pp 120 - 123). Modern information technology (IT) hardware like computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), cellular phones, and gaming devices can be used offline (in standalone mode), online, or wirelessly, from private or public places, in ways that are not easily recognized as illegal and that transcend more the one geopolitical or legal jurisdiction. In addition, illicit use of computing devices can facilitate many forms of traditional in-person crimes.

To fully understand cyber and Internet offenses, it is necessary to consider (1) the ways in which computerized devices and telecommunications systems came to be increasingly used for illicit purposes, (2) the myriad forms of online abuse and crime now taking place in our interconnected world, (3) the categories of people and organizations likely to fall prey to online forms of abuse and crime, (4) the social and economic impact of cyber and Internet offenses, and (5) what is being done to help prevent cyber offenses and provide services to victims of cybercrime.

Legal aspects of Cyber Crime:

American control bodies

Cybercrime is recognized by many experts as the new form of crime in the twenty-first century. Therefore to control it, United States of America has set up many organs of struggle (Corbett, pp 120 - 123). Here are some examples:

In 1998, was created within the police, the department of fight against cybercrime in the technical department of legal research and documentation (STRJD).

On May 15, 2000 was established the Central fight against crime related to information technology and communication (OCLCTIC) within the central management of the judicial police in the Ministry of Interior. It includes within it including the platform for reporting illegal content online. That same year, in addition to the action of OCLCTIC, was put in place, the Directorate for Territorial Surveillance, which is competent to carry out investigations relating to criminal acts of piracy on computer systems in schools restrictive diet or classified defense information.

Moreover, 2006 was the OCRVP, Central Office for the Suppression of violence to persons, whose mission is the coordination on the national level, the fight against violent crimes against persons, especially concerning the pornography on the Internet.

Finally, the National Police has special services such ...