Crime and Crime Prevention

Assignment B – Crime and Crime prevention ICT has greatly contributed to better crime prevention but has also increased some forms of crime. Many Internet criminals are using a number of different methods in order to take what they want from unsuspecting members of the public. There are multiple reasons why criminals commit crime via the Internet, however the most common crimes are the theft of money, the theft of identities or information and finally the damaging of others computers via methods such as viruses. Out of all of the crimes committed over the internet the theft of money from others is the largest due to a number of reasons, however the main reason is that its probably the easiest to do as more and more people are buying and selling products over the internet with the use of credit or debit cards. Criminals are easily able to access these details if members of the public aren’t careful with their details, for example if a member of the public puts their details into an unsecure website there is a great risk of a criminal obtaining this information. Crime prevention has been massively improved with the introduction of tracking devices, CCTV (Close Circuit Television), face recognition software and hacking which can, when used correctly, be used to trace the location or activity of a criminal. Personally, CCTV has never effected or helped me, but I have known people who have had their vehicle or important items stolen from vehicles; CCTV helped them to identify the theft and in one case retrieve the stolen item
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This is a table showing the amount of people per year that have fallen a victim to some form of cybercrime
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Victims per year

556 million

Victims per day

Over 1.5 million

Victims per second

18

Identities exposed

More than 232.4 million

Crime and crime prevention was handed in very different ways before ICT was introduced.
Some of the biggest crimes today are committed over the internet and using