Legal Research Guides by Course - Cyber Crime Seminar

Course Description

This course will examine the unique legal issues that judges, prosecutors, legislatures, business, and society are confronting as they respond to the threat of cybercrime. This course will consider how these entities have and should respond to these issues and attendant legal and policy considerations. Topics will include: the development of cybercrime laws, the Fourth Amendment, privacy in cyberspace, electronic surveillance, the role of non-governmental agencies, and the role of digital forensic evidence, offender sentencing, and public policy issues related to cyber security. No previous experience is required. Each student is required to participate in class sessions, write a paper on an approved topic, and make a presentation to the class on the paper. (3 credits)

Faculty Who Teach This Course

• Adam Palmer (adjunct professor)

Subject Presently Covered in Collection by:

Print Collection

HV6772-HV6773.3 Computer Crimes
K564.C6 Works on Computers - Law in General
K5210 Crimes against Reputation (Cyber-bullying)
K5215 Crimes against Property - General - Law in General
KF390.5.C6 Works on Computers - U.S.
KF1263.C65 Violation of Privacy - Computers and Privacy
KF9350 Crimes against Property - General - U.S.
TK5105.59 Computer Network Security

Legal Research Databases

• Bloomberg BNA Online - Internet Law Resource Center
• Hein Online
• Bloomberg Law
• Westlaw and Lexis
• Legal Scholarship Network - search Cybercrime
• LoisLaw - Treatises - Internet & E-Commerce Library
• Cybercrime (FBI) - http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/cyber/cyber
• US Dept. of Justice Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section - http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/
• Cybercrime & Hacking Topic Center (ComputerWorld) - http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/82/Cybercrime+and+Hacking
• Cybercrime Law - http://www.cybercrimelaw.org/
• Cybercrime Law - http://www.cybercrimelaw.net/Cybercrimelaw.html
• Computer and Internet Fraud (LII) - http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/computer_and_internet_fraud
• Internet Crime Complaint Center - http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
• Privacy in Cyberspace with Prof. Arthur Miller (Harvard) - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/privacy99/
• Electronic Surveillance (LII) - http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/electronic_surveillance
• Electronic Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment (FindLaw) - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment04/05.html
• National Institute of Justice Digital Evidence and Forensics - http://nij.gov/topics/forensics/evidence/digital/welcome.htm
• Internet Law - Guide to Cyberspace Law (hg.org) - http://www.hg.org/internet-law.html
• Cyberlaw Encyclopedia - http://www.gahtan.com/cyberlaw/
• Electronic Privacy Information Center - http://epic.org/ 

Gumberg Databases

• Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost) - Cybercrime
• Ebrary - cybercrime

DCLI Webpage Links

• Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law (contains quick links to our federal and state statutes, our federal and state administrative codes, federal and state case law)

created 10/17/2012
Patricia Horvath