Organised computer crime, co-offending, initiation and knowledge transmission
- 17:00 25th March 2014 ( week 10, Hilary Term 2014 )Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building
This research examines a predominantly Australian sample of computer crime offenders involved in fraud and/or unauthorised access. The focus of this presentation is on the extent to which offenders are involved in organised crime, the nature of the relationship between co- offending, initiation and knowledge transmission, and how the online environment facilitates organised crime and co-offending. This qualitative analysis draws from interviews with self- identified offenders, law enforcement officers who investigate these offenses, and court documents, providing a unique understanding of co-offending and organised crime involving computer systems.
Speaker bio
Dr Alice Hutchings recently joined the Security Group at the Computer Laboratory within the University of Cambridge. Previously, Alice was a Senior Research Analyst with the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Transnational and Organised Crime Program. Alice has extensive experience working across all tiers of government, as well as the academic and private sectors.Alice’s PhD research applied existing sociological theories of crime to determine how they explain computer crimes that compromise data and financial security. Alice has undertaken cybercrime-related research since 2007, when she examined risk factors for phishing victimisation. More recent work has examined criminal and security risks in the cloud, how online offenders perceive victims and select targets, consumer fraud, computer security risks for small businesses, security and privacy issues relating to computer chip identification systems, the misuse of information and communication technology in the public sector, and exploring the relationship between the use of child exploitation materials, the use of internet- enabled technologies to procure children, and contact sexual offending against children.
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