Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

Wedi cwblhau'r modiwl dylai'r myfyrwyr fedru:

1. Understand and describe how the internet has reshaped existing crimes and enabled the emergence of new ones
2. Identify and examine different categories and features of 'cyber-enabled' and 'cyber-dependent' crime.
3. Assess contemporary approaches to cybercrime prevention, surveillance, policing and cybersecurity
4. Examine and assess the usefulness of criminological theory for explaining cybercrime motivation and victimisation

This module introduces students to the criminological study of cybercrime. It draws on key literature and current research to consider the ways in which new and emerging forms of information and communication technologies provide opportunities for a variety of deviant and criminal behaviours. Criminological definitions and theories of cybercrime and challenges relating to security, surveillance, regulation and policing cybercrime will be addressed. In addition, each year the specific subject matter of the course will be chosen to reflect the broad basis of the discipline and include case studies of types of cybercrime such as, for example: fraud, identity theft, cyber-trafficking, cyber-espionage, cyber-terrorism and cyber-stalking. Additionally, the module critically engages with issues surrounding victims’ experiences of cybercrime and offender motivations in a variety of familiar and less familiar contexts.

This will be flexible in order to keep up-to-date with continual change in this fast-developing field but, currently, a broad indication of content currently is:
The theoretical foundations of the criminological study of cybercrime;
Offender and victim typologies, motivations and vulnerabilities;
Fraud, identity theft, phishing, hacking and viruses;
Cyber espionage and terrorism;
Cyberbullying and cyberstalking;
Pornography and grooming;
Cyber trafficking with focus on areas including, but not limited to: the heritage sector, people, animals, and weapons
Security, surveillance and regulation of cyberspace
Policing cyberspace
Investigating cybercrime

Mae'r modiwl hwn yn cydymffurfio a FfCChC Lefel 5