Australian Institute of Criminology

Overview[]

The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) conducts research on cyber crime in its capacity as Australia's national research and knowledge centre on crime and justice. The research of the AIC has led to the publication of a range of academic papers and surveys:

Reports[]

The AIC has published the following reports relating to information technology law:

Crime in the Digital Age (1998)
Electronic Theft (2001)
Cyber Criminals on Trial (2004)
Australian Business Assessment of Computer User Security Survey (ABACUS) (2009)
Computer Security Threats Faced by Small Businesses in Australia (Feb. 7, 2012)
Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce: Results of the 2010 and 2011 Online Consumer Fraud Surveys (Aug. 22, 2012)

High-technology crime briefs[]

Sponsored by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC), an Australian Institute of Criminology Research Analyst works directly with the AHTCC to study criminological aspects of high-technology crime. The aim is to inform the law enforcement community and the general public of developments in this area. This series is a product of that research collaboration. The briefs are produced in a two-page electronic format to provide an introduction to a wide range of key issues in the fight against high-technology crime.

No. 17: Online child grooming laws
No. 16: Money mules
No. 15: The risk of criminal exploitation of online auctions
No. 14: New methods of transferring value electronically
No. 13: Acquiring high tech crime tools
No. 12: High tech crime tools
No. 11: More malware: adware, spyware, spam and spim
No. 10: Malware: viruses, worms, Trojan horses
No. 9: Phishing (Australia)
No. 8: Child pornography sentencing in NSW
No. 7: Hacking techniques
No. 6: Hacking motives
No. 5: Hacking offences
No. 4: Evidence (Australia)
No. 3: Copyright offences
No. 2: Child exploitation (Australia)
No. 1: Concepts and terms

Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice[]

These are concise, peer-reviewed papers on criminological topics for policy makers and practitioners.

No. 433: Computer security threats faced by small businesses in Australia
No. 420: Risk factors for advance fee fraud victimisation
No. 408: Cyber threat landscape faced by financial and insurance industry
No. 403: Online interactions involving suspected paedophiles who engage male children
No. 400: Cloud computing: Challenges and future directions
No. 399: Computer security incidents against Australian businesses: Predictors of victimisation
No. 388: Crime risks of three-dimensional virtual environments
No. 379: Responding to online child sexual grooming: an industry perspective
No. 341: The future of technology-enabled crime in Australia
No. 333: Zombies and botnets
No. 330: Internet purchasing: Perceptions and experiences of Australian households
No. 329: Mobile and wireless technologies: Security and risk factors
No. 301: Queensland police stings in online chat rooms
No. 299: Does thinking make it so? Defining online child pornography possession offences
No. 296: International police operations against online child pornography
No. 294: Spam: Nuisance or menace, prevention or cure?
No. 286: Criminal forfeiture and restriction-of-use orders in sentencing high tech offenders
No. 285: Impediments to the successful investigation of transnational high tech crime
No. 279: A typology of online child pornography offending
No. 243: E-crime solutions and crime displacement
No. 224: Electronic voting: Benefits and risks
No. 177: Public enforcement of intellectual property rights
No. 166: Cyberstalking
No. 129: Identity related economic crime: Risks and countermeasures
No. 121: Nigerian advance fee fraud
No. 118: What is forensic computing?
No. 114: Electronic medicare fraud: Current and future risks
No. 97: Paedophile internet activity
No. 93: Criminal exploitation of new technologies
No. 88: Internet gambling
No. 69: Telemedicine and crime
No. 65: Internet piracy
No. 54: Stealing telecommunications service

Research and public policy series[]

This series includes original research papers, shorter conference proceedings and statistical works, designed to inform the public policy debate.

No. 103: Online child grooming: A literature review on the misuse of social networking sites for grooming children for sexual offences
No. 102: The Australian Business Assessment of Computer User Security: A national survey
No. 94: Intellectual property crime and enforcement in Australia
No. 78: Future directions in technology-enabled crime: 2007-09
No. 60: Online credit card fraud against small businesses
No. 39: Controlling fraud on the Internet: A CAPA perspective: A report for the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants