Global Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

Crossing boundaries into others' cyber property, such as hacking and spreading viruses.

Identity theft and 'phishing'.

It includes pornography involving minors and opportunities for children to access porn on the Internet.

<p>It includes doing psychological harm or inciting physical harm, like cyber-stalking and hate crimes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The sheer scale of the Internet, limited police resources, and its globalized nature pose problems of jurisdiction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Greater opportunities for surveillance and control of the population.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Through the use of CCTV cameras, electronic databases, digital fingerprinting, and 'smart' identity cards.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method used to deceive individuals into providing sensitive information like passwords or credit card details.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jurisdiction problems arising from different countries' laws.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cyber-stalking is carried out online, often using digital communications and social media to harass or intimidate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>36 times more likely</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Age fallacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because the police are a major source of crime stories and want to present themselves in a good light.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dramatic fallacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social construction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Immediacy, dramatisation, higher status individuals, violence, and risk.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It illustrates how media can create moral panics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The belief that committing crime requires daring and cleverness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By emphasizing threats to women, white people, and higher status individuals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It can create a self-fulfilling prophecy that amplifies the problem.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Exaggeration and distortion, prediction, symbolism, and deviance amplification spiral.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It exaggerated the scale of violence and damage, distorting the true picture and heightening public fear.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The media's portrayal of events created a spiral of fear and overreaction, leading to increased control and marginalization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The media predicted further conflict and violence, contributing to a self-fulfilling prophecy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The media used negative labels and stereotypes to associate mods and rockers with deviance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They arise as a way for society to cope with a sense of anomie and normlessness by identifying a scapegoat.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Why the media chooses to amplify certain problems into panics while ignoring others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The media's portrayal led to increased calls for control from the police and courts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A folk devil is a symbol of societal threats used to rally people against a perceived danger during moral panics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The left realist view suggests that people's fear of crime is in fact rational.</p> Signup and view all the answers