Chapter 1


INTRODUCTION 1

Section 1 Connectivity and Cybercrime 3
Section 2 Contemporary Cybercrime 7
Section 3 Issues in Measuring Cybercrime 12
1. Difficulty in Establishing the Definition of Cybercrime 12
2. Problem with Counting Cybercrime 13
3. Estimating the Financial Costs of Cybercrime 14
4. Limitation of Official Crime Statistics and Victimization Survey 16
Section 4 Scope of Research 19
Section 5 Methodology 20



Chapter 2


DEFINITION OF CYBERCRIME 23

Section 1 Overview 25
Section 2 UNODC 25
Section 3 E.U. 26
Section 4 The United States of America 27
Section 5 South Korea 34

Chapter 3


MEASURING CYBERCRIME 35

Section 1 Introduction 37
1. Official Crime Statistics 38
2. Victimization Survey 39
3. Self-Reporting 41
4. Crime Cost 43
5. Fear of Crime 44
Section 2 Current Practices within South Korean Law Enforcement 45
1. Investigative Procedure 45
2. Official Cybercrime Statistics 47
3. Other Cybercrime Statistics 49
4. Self-Reporting 52
5. Victimization Survey 54
6. Summary 57
Section 3 Current Practices in the U.S. Law Enforcement 57
1. Federal and State Criminal Jurisdiction in the U.S. 57
2. Cybercrime in the U.S. 62
3. Cybercrime Statistics 78
4. Summary 101



Chapter 4


CONCLUSION 105

Section 1 Comparison of the Metrics of Cybercrime 107
1. The Cyber-policing Organization 107
2. Definition and Classification of Cybercrime 109
3. The Kind of Data Collected 111
4. The Levels of Data Collected 113
Section 2 Policy Implication 115
1. Developing Index Cybercrime 115
2. Adopting Alternative Measures of Cybercrime 116
3. Enhancing the Reliability of Official Cybercrime Statistics 116
4. Publicize Detailed Official Cybercrime Data 117


References 119