CJ 665 - Special Topics in Cyber Criminology

This course examines the major types of cybercrime and their criminological motivations, including how they are perpetrated, who and what they target, where and why they persist, and the role the Internet plays in changing the definition of crime. Topics will focus on current law enforcement and prosecutorial responses to cybercrime, protected rights of computer users, procedural law protections of the accused, the challenges faced nationally and internationally at combating cybercrime, and the steps being taken by security and law enforcement agencies to address these challenges.

Two credits.