Crime and Deviance on Cryberspaces Flashcards
Cybercrime (e-crime)
A crime that occurs over the internet, with the use of a computer or other electronic devices
Cyberterrorism
Using a computer to orchestrate large-scale “attacks on information,” including gov’t or critical infrastructure server or any database of interest to national security
Phishing
emails requesting sensitive information
Ripping
Illegal copying of CD’s. DVD’s etc
Hacking
Distributed denial-of-service attacks
Luring
Of minors via social media
Skimming
Using software to harvest financial data
Trafficking
Humans, drugs, child pornography
What is the rule?
No law, no crime
What happens when we regulate cyber activities?
We create deviant cyber communities
Deviant cyber communities
Subcultural networks of people who seek to circumvent the customary user experiences of websites, social media, and other online technology. They seek to exploit weaknesses and vulnerabilities
Paradox:
Cyber communities serve a social purpose but also intensify deviant and antisocial impulses among some cyberspace users
Paraphilia
the use of unusual objects, situations, processes, or people to obtain sexual excitement and channel obsessions or fantasies that are inherently deviant, unlawful or considered taboo and forbidden in conventional society
What are some examples of paraphilia
- Erotomania (cyberstalking)
- Exhibitionism (sexting)
- Scopophilia (use of technology to secretly record/ photograph people)
- Scatologia (cyberbullying, cybermobbing, internet trolling)
Routine Activity Theory
Crime occupes when 3 elements converge. Suitable target, motivated offender, absence of suitable guardian
