Crime and the media

Crime and the Media

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Cybercrime is the popular crime making the use of digital platform to conduct illegal
activities. These cyber-attacks are causing adverse impact in the lives of people. Cybercrimes are
not limited to individual but disrupting businesses too. Although, the General Data Protection
Regulation is likely to regulate these activities but is not enough for the evolving forms of
cybercrimes. New technologies devise new opportunities for crimes and thus, causes global
threat. The internet offers hiding places for the criminals as well the provide network to hide.
There are various forms of cybercrimes and even categorised differently. Because of these
characteristics cybercrimes are considered as real world crimes and need to prosecute
accordingly (Furnell and et. al., 2020).
The cybercrime is already a serious concern for the law enforcement agencies, policy
makers, the government and other professionals. Furthermore, there no sign of reducing
cybercrimes. The essay examines how and what types of crimes take place with the usage of
computer technology and its impact on society as well as on the individuals. The essay highlights
the key problems which are faced by researchers in studying the nature as well as extent of
cybercrimes. The theories related to traditional crimes cannot be related to cybercrimes. The
essay provides the all the problems of researchers in identifying and knowing characteristics of
cybercrimes. The researchers aims to provide motive and methods behind cybercrime and while
researching they faced various challenges.
MAIN BODY
The pace of technology participated in revolutionizing each aspect of human life from
communicating, banking to fulfilling our needs. The source of internet and evolving forms of
technology including smart phones, gadgets led to the advancement and quality of higher life.
The advancement in the technology have also contributed in creating countless opportunities for
offenders to commit various forms of crime. Cybercrime is form of online crime and it occurs
when preparatory makes wrongful use of technology or online network to commit crimes such as
abuse, fraud, theft, threats or intimidation (Rajput, 2020). They led to computer assisted crime as
the technology and computer are used to support such crimes i.e. computer is used to send threat
messages. On the other hand, the cybercrime encompasses computer- focused crimes, these are
crimes occurred as a result of direct usage of computer technology such as trespassing someone’s