Deck 1: Cybercrime and Cybercriminals: The Development of Cybercriminology

Question 1

________ refers to unauthorized access to computer systems and digital devices utilizing the Internet, computers, and related technology.

A) Cybertrespass
B) Cybervandalism
C) Cybertheft
D) Cyberdeviance
E) Public order cybercrime

Answer 1

A

Question 2

________ refers to the virtual defacement of someone else's property.

A) Cybertrespass
B) Cybervandalism
C) Cybertheft
D) Cyberdeviance
E) Public order cybercrime

Answer 2

B

Question 3

________ involves the preying on children, adults, and the elderly through communications, information, and computer technologies.

A) Cyberdeviance
B) Public order cybercrime
C) Cybervice
D) Cyberpredation
E) None of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

________ is an act wherein an individual places a hoax call to emergency services that a crime or other critical incident that requires an emergency police response is underway.

A) Hacking
B) Website defacement
C) Swatting
D) Wardriving
E) None of the above

Question 5

_______ refers to the use of the Internet, computers, and related technology to engage in conduct that violates social norms and expectations.

A) Cyberdeviance
B) Cybertrespass
C) Cybervandalism
D) Cyberpredation
E) None of the above

Question 6

_______ involves the planning and executing of illegal business ventures online by either hierarchical groups or decentralized networks that often conduct their operations from more than one country.

A) Cyberdeviance
B) Cybervice
C) Cybervandalism
D) Organized cybercrime
E) None of the above

Question 7

_______ is a cybercrime committed by individuals, groups, or nations in furtherance of some political goal or agenda.

A) Public order cybercrime
B) Political cybercrime
C) Cybervice
D) Organized cybercrime
E) None of the above

Question 8

_________ is a crime committed via the Internet, computers, and related technology that offends the public's shared norms, morals, values, and customs.

A) Public order cybercrime
B) Political cybercrime
C) Cybervice
D) Organized cybercrime
E) None of the above

Question 9

Cybercrime ______________.

A) occurs on a far greater scale than traditional crime
B) transcends borders
C) has the ability to reach and affect individuals around the globe
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 10

Cyberspace has transformed and enhanced __________.

A) the way information is viewed, exchanged, and retrieved
B) the way in which individuals develop and maintain relationships
C) trade
D) the way money is moved
E) all of the above

Question 11

A ______ is an act that violates existing laws.

Question 12

A _______ is a person who violates the law.

Question 13

A _______ is an illicit act that targets digital devices or is committed via the Internet, computers, and related technology.

Question 14

A ______ is a person who utilizes the Internet, computers, and related technology to violate the law.

Question 15

_____ is the system of rules that regulate the public's actions and provide penalties for noncompliance.

Question 16

Those engaging in _____ drive around areas looking for vulnerable Wi-Fi networks to hack into.

Question 17

_______ is the environment within which communications and other online activities through Internet-enabled digital devices take place.

Question 18

Cybercrime can fall under ______ proposed typologies.

Question 19

______ is the scientific study of the causes of crime, the scope of crime, the responses to crime by the public, media, social and political institutions, and criminal justice systems, and the ways to control, mitigate, and prevent crime.

Question 20

______ is the study of cybercrime through the lens of criminology.

Question 21

Cybertheft refers to the stealing of personal information, medical information, financial information, and/or money via the Internet, computers, and related technology for personal or other use.

Question 22

A cybervice is a crime committed via communications, information, and computer technologies against an individual with whom the perpetrator is communicating or has some form of relationship (real or imagined).

Question 23

An example of an interpersonal cybercriminal is an online child sexual predator.

Question 24

A cybervice is online behavior that is deemed immoral because it violates accepted codes of conduct.

Question 25

An example of cyberdeviance is online paraphilia.

Question 26

Biastophilia involves abnormal sexual desires obtained from violent assaults.

Question 27

Impersonation fraud involves the manipulation of financial markets or the defrauding of investors through deception; it has also been perpetrated online.

Question 28

Skimmers are electronic devices that are used to steal the personal information stored on users' credit or debit cards and to record the users' PIN numbers.

Question 29

Impersonation fraud takes advantage of people's interest in important news stories and celebrities to get individuals to click on links that surreptitiously download malware onto a user's machine.

Question 30

Lulz is a term used to describe actions that occur at someone's expense to hurt the individual or create mayhem for enjoyment purposes.