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Abbasi, Ahmed, and Chen Hisinchun. "Writeprints: A Stylometric Approach to Identity-Level Identification and Similarity Detection in Cyberspace," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2008. Vol. 2, Issue 2.  7:1-7:29.

 

Hinduja, Sameer, and Justin W. Pathcin. "Offline Consequences of Online Victimization: School Violence and Delinquency" Journal of School Violence. Vol. 6 Issue 3, 2007, 89-112.

 

Hoffman, Lance. J. "Building in big brother : the cryptographic policy debate," New York : Springer-Verlag, 1995.

 

Jasper, Margaret C. "Identity theft and how to protect yourself," Dobbs Ferry, N.Y: Oceana Publications, 2006.

 

"Sex crimes and the Internet : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, October 17, 2007." Serial No. 110-87. Washington : U.S. G.P.O. printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary, 2007. <http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_house_hearings&docid=f:38335.pdf>

 

 "The national strategy to secure cyberspace : [electronic resource] draft for comment / The President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board," Washington, D.C:, the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, 2002. <https://ezproxy.lib.davidson.edu/login?url=http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS22941>

 

 

I have an email into the agent I interned with to see if she has any insight on how i could narrow my topic. I asked if there were any crimes in particular that she has seen a rise in and that she finds interesting regarding the internet and identity theft and identity fraud. Where could I find some other sources about internet and crimes?

In my research paper I am hoping to discuss in some respects how the Internet has made committing certain crimes, such as identity theft, much easier for criminals. Leo Marx presents in his work "Does Improved Technology Mean Progress" the question does improved technology mean progress, and that in order for technology to be progress it must have a predetermined purpose. With the invention of the Internet it was not intended for people to gain access of information they should not have and use it for illegal purposes. Marx states that people today have lost the interest to "name the social ends for which the scientific and technological instruments of power are to be used," meaning that no one decides the limits of technologies. So in the case of the Internet, I think Marx would argue that people were naïve and did not realize the full potential of the Internet and the major problems that could arise. A predetermined purpose for the Internet had not been set, no one decided what this "progress" was going towards or what it was supposed to accomplish. Marx believes that by setting these "goals" for what the technological innovation should be used for it "can provide the criteria required to make rational and humane choices," meaning there would be less room for people to take advantage of the technology and misuse it, which is what has been happening with the Internet. Marx would also encourage people to weigh the actual costs and benefits of the Internet, and ask if it's really worth it to make accessible all this information just for criminals to use against the society. The Internet, with it's wide range of possibilities, Marx would argue that there may be too many ways in which things could go wrong, and say that the Internet possibly is a technological innovation that is not progressive. 

topic 1: cyber crimes/ crimes on the internet