Digital Crime and Digital Terrorism

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Digital Crime and Digital Terrorism are crimes that are of high relevance to the roles and responses of law enforcement that involve offenses committed by way of, and aid of computers and other technology advanced devices that includes but is not limited to: identify theft, fraud, computer hackers, inside and outside espionage, white collar crimes, and virus and malicious code writers; in conjunction with digital terrorism in terms of concepts of information warfare and cyber terrorism. All of these crimes are of heightened relevance that requires the immediate assistance of law enforcement personnel of local, state, and federal agencies because of anonymity and how quickly these crimes can occur. “Digital crime involves computers as tools to perform traditional criminal acts of child pornography, financial crimes, information and corporate espionage, exploitation, stalking and identity theft.” (Taylor, 2011) Digital terrorism is determined as the premeditated use of disruptive attacks in terrorist activities, or the threat thereof, in large-scale disruption against computers networks and/or personal computers, with the objective to cause harm through the Internet.

Responses and roles of law enforcement to digital crime and terrorism on federal, state, and local levels are imperative faucets that have evolved in the reduction and ceasing of these types of crime in order triumph over the war on cyber crime. They have been charged with the duties to protect citizens, businesses, and governments from threats and acts of terrorism. Federal agencies are in the forefront against computer crime because they have the technical proficiency and political influence to acquire monetary and operational means at the national level. Agenci...

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Mark, R. (2002, December 27). Working with FBI and other federal agencies, facility will investigate Internet fraud, child pornography and denial of service crimes. Retrieved March 10, 2012, from S.C. Opens First Cyber Crime Center.

New Jersey Investigations. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10, 2012, from The State of New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety: www.njsp.org

Perserving Life & Liberty. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10, 2012, from Highlights ofthe USA PATRIOT ACT: www.justice.gov

Snow, G. M. (n.d.). FBI- Cybersercurity: Responding to the Threat of Cybercrime and Terrorism. Retrieved March 11, 2012, from The FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation: www.fbi.gov

Taylor, R. W., Fritsch, E. J., Liederbach, J., & Holt, T. (2011). Digital Crime & Digital Terrorism. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

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