International Serious and Organised Crime Conference 2013
 

Concurrent session 1d—Cyber: Crime from the keyboard—Organised cybercrime, initiation, knowledge transmission and crime escalation

Dr Alice Hutchings, Senior Research Analyst, Transnational & Organised Crime Program, Australian Institute of Criminology

This research relates to computer crimes that compromise data and financial security, namely, hacing and online fraud. This study applies Choo and Smith’s (2008) typology of organised crime groups in cyberspace to a predominantly Australian sample of hackers and computer fraudsters, focusing on the extent that offenders are involved in organised crime and the nature of the relationship between co-offending, initiation, knowledge transmission and crime escalation. This qualitative analysis draws on interviews with self-identified offenders, law enforcement officers who investigated these offences and related court documents. This work contributes to the literature relating to organised crime in the online environment, providing insight through the lens of offenders, law enforcement officers and the judiciary. (Choo K-K R & Smith R G 2008. Criminal Exploitation of Online Systems by Organised Crime Groups. Asian Journal of Criminology, 3(1), 37-59).