Cyber-crime: Understanding the Impact of Digital Technologies

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Introduction
The online world has brought global connections to the local environment and has changed the
ways of interaction between the different users. Obstacles are mitigated, making it easier for
people to access information and establish connections for a variety of products and services
available while using ICT (Information Communication Technology). Cybercrime adds a new
dimension to the illegal and violent risks those, the law enforcement official and policymakers
are trying to address. Such crimes are particularly worrying because they are usually
asymmetrical because a person or a small team of having programming expertise can inflict as
much harm as once it caused the entire army (Anita R. Gohdes, 2018). More importantly, the
offenders do not have to be wherever around the victim. When a crime occurs, the perpetrator
might be thousands of the miles away from the mainland, so it is very difficult to track.
Opportunities offered through digital and communication technologies, especially social media,
spur a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and explore how these advances affect our way of
life. The “digital society” does not position technology as an independent space that exists more
widely in society. However, it treats these technologies as embedded parts of large social entities
and recognizes the convergence of digital technologies, media, and networks including criminal
behavior, victimization, and justice (Wagner, 2012). The aim of this report is to analyze the
criminal justice issue outside of the ‘traditional cyber-crime’ impacted the digital technologies
emergence. This report will cover the cultural, political, and social influences central to digital
technology in the Australian community context.
Criminal justice issue outside of 'traditional cyber-crime' has been impacted by the
emergence of digital technologies
To a large extent, our argument in this paper is that, to date, criminological contact with
computers and cybercrime has been largely isolated; lack of sociology, computer science,
politics, journalism, media and Critical and interdisciplinary contacts in disciplines such as
cultural studies(Biber, 2018). This is particularly detrimental to the promotion of a new generation
of scholarships on technology, crime, derailment, and justice in the digital age. The approach to
digital criminology research presented here is intended to include and greatly expand the
traditional focus of computer and cybercrime scholarships (Travers, Putt & Howard-Wagner,
2013). While there are many social and technical theoretical frameworks and disciplinary
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influences that can spur criminological research, many of them are based on the basic
understanding that the impact of technology. On contemporary crime, justice cannot be
understood merely as a tool or a separate scope of the experience. Instead, here we have
deployed the concept of "digital society" to emphasize our technological embeddedness in life
experiences of crime, victimization, and justice; the emergence of new criminal and judicial
technology social practices; and social, cultural and critical the theory continues to understand
and respond to crime in the digital age. It has been advocated that digital criminology can
provide a productive platform to extend the boundaries of contemporary criminological theory
and research, not necessarily a sub-discipline itself. The aim is to promote a broader and
sustained dialogue within the discipline that spans technology, society, crime, bias, and justice;
and stimulates new concepts and experiences (Pantea & Martens, 2013).
Comprehension of the social, political, and cultural influences central to digital criminology
One-way criminology can explain the support of technology and the effects of disability are to
conceptualize crime, bias, and justice into the practice of increasingly technological society in
the digital society. The practicality of numbers as "cultural markers" "contains artifacts and
meaning and communication systems that most clearly distinguish the relationship between our
contemporary lifestyle and others"(Biber, 2018). At the time, the key to the digital society was to
recognize structures, socio-cultural practices, and changes in life experiences that could not
distinguish between online and offline worlds. By focusing on digitalization, Deuze (2006)
argues that researchers can explore the impact of online and offline shaping of cultural products,
arrangements, and activities. This digital and social impact is also known as the digitization of
society, where "technology is society and cannot be understood or represented by society without
technical tools". By focusing on digital society, then other prefixes, such as cyber or virtual,
suggest that criminologists go beyond the framework of "computers", "networks" or "virtual"
crimes and justice are fundamentally different, or rather, opposed to "non-technology's form of
crime" as well as justice. Simultaneously, the more general concept in the digital society
encourages the study of criminal imagination to be related to relations, culture, emotions,
reprinted, re-institutionalized and potentially resisting crime and justice politics and social
structural level exploration, familiarity and unfamiliar ways. In fact, we use the digital "social",
compared to other similar and popular suffixes, such as "age" or "time" motives, which are
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