Veering toward digital disorder: computer-related crime and law  

Oleh:

Correia, Mark E. ; Bowling, Craig

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Police Quarterly vol. 2 no. 2 (Jun. 1999), page 225-244.
Fulltext: 225PQ22.pdf (87.03KB)

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The proliferation of com puters in the main stream has promoted access to technology once only avail able to scien tists, researchers, and government officials. This “digitizing of society” has impacted many aspects of daily life, resulting in reliance on computers for the likes of ban ing, telecommunications, entertainment, and emergency services, to mention a few. This increaseing dependence on com puters, how ever, has opened the door for a new breed of criminals whose ill got ten toolkit consists of Central Processing Units, modulator demodulators, war dialers, viruses, and warez. The targets of these high-tech criminals often include computer networks and the informa tion therein. Law enforcement, gen erally a mechanistic body in both structure and operation, finds itself handicapped in attempting to maintain order in this hyperdynamic information age. Such developments lead to a new form of disorder—digitaldis order. This article develops the concept of digital di order by examining the characteristics of a “broken win dow” in cyberspace and law enforcement preparedness. In addressing the afore mentioned, various the oretical issues are discussed, as are the empirical findings from a base line study of 278 municipal police departments.

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