Computer crime

  • Authors:
  • Donn B. Parker

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Business, economic, and white-collar crimes have changed rapidly as computers proliferate into the activities and environments in which these crimes occur. Computers have engendered a different form of crime. The Internet (q.v.), in particular, provides many new avenues for crime, such as identity theft and spreading new kinds of computer viruses. Computers have been involved in most types of crime, including fraud, theft, larceny, embezzlement, bribery, burglary, sabotage, espionage, conspiracy, extortion, attempted murder, manslaughter, distribution of pornography, trespassing, violation of privacy, and kidnapping.