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Cybercrime and the Judicial Service

Outline

1. Introduction: Defining cybercrime and providing some background information about it.

· The introduction and innovation of the internet greatly transformed the world positively and negatively.

· Positively, the internet improved communication, created a mechanism for automation, reduced labor costs and positively influence people’s standards of living through information.

· Negatively, the internet paired a way for cultural exchanged and resulted to cybercrimes and cyber fraud.

· By definition, cyber-crime refers to criminal act that occurs over the internet and via illegal and unethical use of both the internet and the computer.

2. Thesis statement: Currently, the criminal justice system should enact tough cybercrime laws and punishment because cases of cyber fraud have been tremendously rising.

3. Body: Discuss in-depth about cyber-crime, cyber fraud and how they occur. Cover issues like:

· Cyber-crime communities as factors contributing to high instances of cyber frauds

· Cyber-crime markets as factors contributing to high instances of cyber frauds

· Cyber Fraud and give past examples of banks being hacked, corporate networks being compromised, distributed denial of service attacks, identity theft, etc.

· How the criminal Justice responds to cyber-crimes. Analyze the current cyber-crime laws, penalties, jail sentences.

· For instance: The criminal justice system response to cybercrime is the approach and advancement of the field of computerized legal sciences, which has its roots in information recuperation routines.

· That is, computerized legal sciences has advanced into a field of intricate, controlled methodology that consider close constant examination prompting precise criticism.

· Such examination permits people in criminal justice to track the progressions and key issues that are relevant to great examination of cybercrime.

· Provide amendments on how to carb the rising rates of cybercrime.

4. Conclusion: A general Summary about the paper.

· This is summary of the whole paper, restating the thesis statement.

· It is true that cases of cybercrime has been on the rise.

· For instance, cases of identity theft, attempted hacking of banks, unexplained losses of finances in customer bank accounts are common examples. These have been promoted by cyber-crime communities and cybercrime markets.

· However, the judicial system is actively enacting and enforcing stout laws to prevent and reduced such high rates of cyber-crime.

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Snow, G. (2011). Statement Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. The Federal Bureau Of Investigations.