Article Summary: Cyber Crime Vs. Traditional Crime
Cyber Crime v Traditional Crime
Alan Maricle
CJA 204
November 25, 2014
Professor Davis
Cyber Crime v Traditional Crime
Eighteen people were charged in what may be one of the nation’s largest credit card fraud rings, a sprawling international scam that duped credit-rating agencies and used thousands of fake identities to steal at least $200 million, said federal authorities. (The Associated Press, 2013). This story was in the headlines in the news early last year around February. It is a great illustration to show the harshness of cybercrime and the degree to which it has a greater likelihood for destruction than traditional crime. Robbing a bank traditionally meant secluded instances at individual banks. Cybercrime unlocks new accesses to delinquents where they have the influence to take advantage of complete associations in ways that would not have been imaginable traditionally.
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While laws have been sluggish to acclimate to these innovative forms of criminal actions, advancement has been made. In InfoWorld’s Security Central article on Cyber Crime, Roger Grimes reminds us that only a few years ago, spiteful hackers could acquire millions of assets, cause mass destruction and yet avoid jail time. These days’ prosecutions have significantly risen as well as the time sentenced attached to such verdicts. It is a challenging question to address whether traditional crime should be punished the same, more or less severely than cybercrime because there is not at all times a clear cut way to evaluate the two. In some ways laws are improving, however Grimes argues that the scale has tipped too much in some instances. We only have to look back over the last couple of years to the
Alan Maricle
CJA 204
November 25, 2014
Professor Davis
Cyber Crime v Traditional Crime
Eighteen people were charged in what may be one of the nation’s largest credit card fraud rings, a sprawling international scam that duped credit-rating agencies and used thousands of fake identities to steal at least $200 million, said federal authorities. (The Associated Press, 2013). This story was in the headlines in the news early last year around February. It is a great illustration to show the harshness of cybercrime and the degree to which it has a greater likelihood for destruction than traditional crime. Robbing a bank traditionally meant secluded instances at individual banks. Cybercrime unlocks new accesses to delinquents where they have the influence to take advantage of complete associations in ways that would not have been imaginable traditionally.
The …show more content…
While laws have been sluggish to acclimate to these innovative forms of criminal actions, advancement has been made. In InfoWorld’s Security Central article on Cyber Crime, Roger Grimes reminds us that only a few years ago, spiteful hackers could acquire millions of assets, cause mass destruction and yet avoid jail time. These days’ prosecutions have significantly risen as well as the time sentenced attached to such verdicts. It is a challenging question to address whether traditional crime should be punished the same, more or less severely than cybercrime because there is not at all times a clear cut way to evaluate the two. In some ways laws are improving, however Grimes argues that the scale has tipped too much in some instances. We only have to look back over the last couple of years to the