Arm yourself with the knowledge to fight cybercrime

Criminal activity involving computers continues to grow, making it critical for law enforcement personnel, legislators, and IT pros to develop the knowledge to prevent, detect, report, and prosecute cybercrime. In this chapter from Scene of the Cybercrime, Second Edition, Deb Shinder and coauthor Michael Cross discuss cybercrime definitions and categories, jurisdictional issues, prioritizing cybercrime enforcement, educating criminal justice professionals and the IT community, and strategies for fighting cybercrime.

Title: Scene of the Cybercrime, Second Edition
Authors: Debra Littlejohn Shinder and Michael Cross
Chapter 1: "Facing the Cybercrime Problem Head-On"
ISBN-13: 978-1-59749-276-8; Printed with permission from Syngress, a division of Elsevier. Copyright 2008. For more information about this title and other similar books, please visit the publisher.