Cybercrime: Crime and the Media Online

Question 1

How did Thomas and Loader define cybercrime? (Date?)

Answer 1

2003
- “computer mediated activities which are either illegal or considered illicit by certain parties and which can be conducted through electronic networks”

Question 2

What were Wall’s four areas of Cybercrime (Date?)

Answer 2

2001

• Cyber trespass
• Cyber deceptions
• Cyber pornography
• Cyber violence

Question 3

How many visits were made to pirated sites stated by Muso? (Date?)

Answer 3

2017
made 73.9 Billion visits to illegally access music
53.2 Billion visits to download or stream movies

Question 4

According to Price, how much does pirated materials take up in the internet? (Date?)

Answer 4

2013

takes up almost a quarter of internet bandwidth = 23.8%

Question 5

Give 2 examples of criminals who used the internet to assist them in committing offences?

Answer 5

• Robert Bower = Pittsburgh shooting 2018, posted regularly on GAB (expressed views)
• Brenton Harrison = Christchurch mosque shooting 2019, Livestreamed first shooting on Facebook (used YouTube as info and inspo)

Question 6

What did Irwin Rogers & Pinkney suggest about social media? (Date?)

Answer 6

2017

- Social media as a catalyst and trigger for youth violence

Question 7

What did Irwin Rogers & Pinkney (2017) suggest about Drill Music?

Answer 7

• Subset of these showing weapons and threatening others - Leads to Glamorisation of violence and crime
• Widely followed on social media

Question 8

Give example of victim that has been suggested to be effected by social media?

Answer 8

Jermaine Goupall - Chased and murdered in London, due to a postcode rivalry, however wasn’t even in a gang.
- Met Police Commissioner blamed social media for gang violence