How To Cyber Crimes Similar To Cyber Crime

A crime is an action considered to be violating the law. There are various kinds of crimes, whose determination is influenced by the current living conditions. Hence, with the implementation of new technologies, and innovations such as the Internet, crimes do not only exist in the physical world, but also in the cyber world. Thus, there are many differences and similarities between these two concepts, among which the most relevant are: the scale, the reach, perception and media effect, and the speed.

To begin with the scale of both crimes differ significantly. On one hand, a cyber crime can be significantly bigger than a physical crime is. This is mainly due to the fact that cyber attacks occur via technological items, such as computers, smartphones, etc. Moreover, cyber criminals are usually more concerned about targeting bigger companies or group of individuals that would entail greater results. On the other hand, a physical crime is limited by the place’s size in which the supposed crime is going to be executed. Criminals cannot be committing crimes all over the world or in different places unless their organization consists of a vast amount of members, and their operations are

Cyber crimes are not always perceived as negative for the criminal, as usually the party to be blamed is that of the company that has been robbed, or the security system that they utilize. Moreover, if an individual is located and discovered to have realized crimes of cyber nature, is rather the organization that he works for that receive the blame (Hay, 2010). Contrariwise, the media will always portray physical criminals as the individuals to be blamed, as their faces and characteristics are known. Even though, in both cases, the punishment is similar, thus depriving the criminals from their freedom, and incarcerating them for a certain amount of time (determined by the jury) to serve their