Module Two
Required Readings:
1. Police Technology
a. Chapter Sixteen: Hi-Tech Crime
2. Computer Forensics and Cyber Crime
a. Chapter Three: History of Crime
and Computer Crime
b. Chapter Four: Computer Crimes:
Computer as Targets - Hacking and Beyond
c. Chapter Five: Avenues for
Prosecution and Government Efforts
d. Chapter Six: Applying the First
Amendment to Computer-Related Crime
e. Chapter Seven: The Fourth
Amendment
3. Recovering
and Examining Computer Forensic Evidence
Forensic Science
Communications, Federal Bureau of Investigations, October 2000
4. Searching/Seizing
Computers/Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Invest
Department of Justice, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section,
July
2002
a. Part One Searching and Seizing Computers without a warrant.
b. Part Two Searching and Seizing Computers with a warrant.
Recommended Readings:
1. Police
Technology
a. Chapter Eleven Information Exchange
2. Its
Not Just Fun and War Games Juveniles and Computer Crime
Department of
Justice, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, 2001
3. High Technology Crime Investigators Handbook
a. Chapter One The Changing World An Introduction to High Technology Crime
4. Definitions/Guidelines
for the Use of Imaging Tech in the CJ System
Forensic
Science Communications, Federal Bureau of Investigations, October 1999
5 Identify
Theft: The Crime of the New Millennium
Department of Justice,
Computer
Crime and Intellectual Property Section, March 2001
6.Searching/Seizing
Computers/Obtaining Electronic Evidemce Investigations
Department of Justice, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section,
July
2002
a. Part Three The Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Assignments:
(Note: Assignment due dates are listed on the
course homepage)
Written
Assignments
Based on your readings thus far and
additional research conducted on your own, prepare a eight to ten page
mid-term paper
with at least four different sources that describes one aspect of high
technology or computer
crime. At a minimum,
in that paper discuss:
1. The technology used by offenders.
2. The impact of the crime.
3. The technology used to investigate
Participation Assignment
Go to the
Criminal Justice Online forum
you will find the
second threaded discussion question here.
