Criminal Threats from Cyberspace - LAWS3066

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisites: Crime & the Criminal Process (LAWS1021/JURD7121) and Criminal Laws (LAWS1022/JURD7122) OR Criminal Law 1 (LAWS1001/JURD7101) and Criminal Law 2 (LAWS1011/JURD7111).

Excluded: CRIM2023, JURD7566

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

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 - 40%

Participation (Online and in Class) - 20%

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.