As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit a Cybercrime assignment. Please refer to your Student Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on preparing and submitting assignments.
Learning Outcomes: After completing the module, you should be able to:
1. Demonstrate an informed, and in-depth critical understanding of the main developments in the contemporary field of Criminology and the ‘new’ cyber and Information technologies.
2. Demonstrate a critical awareness of the diversity of competing theoretical paradigms in Criminology in relation to the area of study, and of the different epistemological and ontological assumptions that underpin criminological theory and research in the area of study.
3. Demonstrate a reflective and critical understanding of the main developments in the contemporary field of computing that are relevant to issues of cybercrime.
4. Demonstrate effective communication skills in relation to the analysis of current cybercrime issues and useful lines of future research on cybercrime.
5. Confidently use written and audio-visual presentations to summarise, explain and discuss technical and specialist materials for an audience of non-specialists.
There are various theories that have attempted to explain how and why individuals, groups and organisations may commit cybercrime. Based on a type of cybercrime of your choice, discuss all three points below:
) Which theories are most effective in explaining why individuals may commit this type of cybercrime (this should include at least one theory discussed in the module)?
b) Which theories are least effective in explaining why individuals may commit this type of cybercrime (this should include at least one theory discussed in the module)?
c) How is this type of cybercrime ‘policed’, and how could responses to this form of criminality be improved?
