RT Article
T1 IT-related crime - old crimes in a new guise, but new directions too!
JF Journal of Scandinavian studies in criminology and crime prevention
VO 2
IS 1
SP 5
OP 14
A1 Korsell, Lars 1956-
A2 Söderman, Krister
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639635734
AB This article constitutes an attempt to describe the nature of IT-related crime and how it is likely to evolve in the future. By means of a number of empirical studies, the authors have attempted to estimate the prevalence of a number of different IT-related incidents and offences in Sweden during the period 1997-1998. The article shows that IT-related crime consists to a large extent of less serious offences. One might say that everyday crime has expanded into a new technological environment. Parts of the study nonetheless indicate that there are more serious IT-related offences being committed. In this regard the authors' focus is on offences related to the most valuable commodity in modern society, information. On the basis of the empirical studies, two different developmental patterns are identified; the first of these involves everything carrying on much the same as before, with no real evidence of any radical shift taking place; the second involves society going through a period of relatively comprehensive structural and technological change, which in turn is creating new and dangerous opportunity structures for crime
K1 Tatgelegenheitsstruktur
K1 Computerkriminalität
K1 Internetkriminalität
K1 Schweden