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Criminal Threats from Cyberspace - JURD7566
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Pre-requisites: LAWS1001 and LAWS1011; JURD7101 and JURD7111
 
 
Excluded: CRIM2023, LAWS3066
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 3 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

Cybercrime’ examines how the online world has borne new crimes and law enforcement responses, as well as investigates how the computer has become both a target of attack and a tool for criminal activity. ‘Cybercrime’ explores a number of emerging cybercrimes , and also explores how old crimes are affected in new mediums. How do nation-states regulate criminal activity of those persons and organizations located abroad? How is law enforcement shifting from traditional mechanisms to new regulatory regimes and technological solutions? The course will be taught from an inter-disciplinary perspective. A technical background is not essential.

Convenor

Alana Maurushat
Lecturer, Faculty of Law
Email: a.maurushat@unsw.edu.au

Recommended Prior Knowledge

Basic components of criminal law. While some knowledge of technologies is useful, there will be no assumption that students possess such knowledge prior to commencing the course.

Course Objectives

  • Articulate the main elements of various cybercrime offences
  • Understand the unique challenges posed to law enforcement agents, policy makers and prosecutors
  • Appreciate the level of technical complexity and evolving issues in high tech crime
  • To be able to engage in debate on policy reform in the area
  • Explain and provide better instruction to a digital forensic specialist
  • Completion of a independent research of an inter-disciplinary nature

Main Topics

  • Digital evidence
  • Internet and criminal regulatory theory
  • High Tech Crimes (Eg. Hacking, Cracking, Phishing, Social Engineering, Pharming, Malware, Botnets)

Assessment

Notes and Queries - 30%

Participation (Online and in Class) - 30%

Research Poster + Annotated Bibliography - 40%

Course Texts

Prescribed
None

Recommended

Cybercrime: Criminal Threats from Cyberspace (1st ed), Susan Brenner 2010

Resources

Refer to the course outline which will be provided by the lecturer at the beginning of the relevant semester.

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