Cybercrime : legal issues

• Published resources:
• Australian
• Other countries and international;
• Other resources

See also: Responses; Investigative and policing issues; Internet regulation

Published resources : Australia

2008

• Online child grooming laws
  Australian Institute of Criminology, 2008

2007

• Cyber bullying : issues for policy makers
  Australian Institute of Criminology, 2007

2005

• Child pornography sentencing in New South Wales
  Australian Institute of Criminology, 2005
• Copyright offences
  Australian Institute of Criminology, 2005
• Cyberspace governance guide
  Caslon Analytics, 2005
• Does thinking make it so? Defining online child pornography possession offences
  Tony Krone. Australian Institute of Criminology, 2005
• Evidence
  Australian Institute of Criminology, 2005
• Hacking offences
  Australian Institute of Criminology, 2005

2004

• Australia and New Zealand spam regulation
  Caslon Analytics, 2004
• Credit card skimming offences model criminal code
  Model Criminal Code Officers' Committee, Attorney-General's Department, 2004
• Criminal forfeiture and restriction-of-use orders in sentencing high tech offenders
  Russell G Smith. Australian Institute of Criminology, 2004
• Cyber crime sentencing : the effectiveness of criminal justice responses
  Russell Smith. Australian Institute of Criminology. Crime in Australia : international connections conference, 2004
• Cyber criminals on trial
  Russell G Smith, Peter Grabosky and Gregor Urbas. Australian Institute of Criminology, 2004
• Spam canned : new laws for Australia (PDF 54kB)
  David Vaile. Internet law bulletin, 2004

2003 and earlier

• Provision of the Spam Bill 2003 and the Spam (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2003
  Parliament of Australia. Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee, 2003
• Regulating youth access to pornography (PDF 102kB)
  Michael Flood and Clive Hamilton. The Australia Institute, 2003
• A critical analysis of Queensland's cyberstalking legislation
  Daniel Sullivan. New South Wales Society for Computers and the Law journal, 2002
• The new computer crime laws : MCCOC, NSW and more
  Alex Steel. Cyber law resources, 2001
• Public enforcement of intellectual property rights
  Gregor Urbas. Australian Institute of Criminology, 2000
• Advisory report on the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Bill 1999
  Parliament of Australia. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, 1999
• Australian criminal law and the internet
  Robert F O'Connor, 1997
• Controlling the interception of communications : law or technology?
  Russell Smith. Communications research forum, 1997
• Can the internet be regulated?
  Helen Roberts. Australian Parliamentary Library research paper, 1996

Published resources : Other countries and international

• Reform of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (PDF 162kB)
  Internet Crime Forum (UK), 2003
• International aspects of computer crime
  Department of Justice (US), 2003
• Legal issues
  EURIM/IPPR E-crime Study, 2003
• New Zealand Crimes Amendment Act : a legal white elephant
  Peter Taylor. NSW Society for Computers and the Law journal no. 53, 2003
• Regulation of child pornography on the internet : cases and materials
  Yaman Akdeniz, 2003
• Cybercrime : the need to harmonize national penal and procedural laws (PDF 131kB)
  Susan W Brenner and Marc D Goodman. 16th international conference of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, 2002
• Designing appropriate sanctions to counteract cross-border plastic card fraud
  Russell Smith. International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators 10th annual conference, 2002
• Handbook of legislative procedures of computer and network misuse in EU countries (PDF 807kB)
  RAND Europe, 2002
• Rip, mix and burn : the politics of peer to peer and copyright law
  Kathy Bowrey and Matthew Rimmer. First Monday journal 7(8), 2002 (updated 2005)
• Cybercrime investigation and prosecution : the role of penal and procedural law
  Susan W Brenner. E law journal 8(2), 2001
• Cybercrime legislation in the Asia-Pacific region
  Gregor Urbas. Regional conference on piracy and cybercrime, 2001
• Online grooming and UK law (PDF 82kB)
  ChildNet International, 2001
• Technical and legal responses to unsolicited electronic email
  David E Sorkin, University of San Fransisco law review 325, 2001
• Cyber crime ... and punishment? Archaic laws threaten global information (PDF 289kB)
  McConnell International, 2000

Other resources

• Cybercrime Law : a global survey of cybercrime legislation
• Cyberlaw journals
• EU Framework Decision on Attacks Against Information Systems
• European Internet Coregulation Network
• International review of criminal policy : United Nations Manual on the prevention and control of computer-related crime
• Spam Laws
• Unauthorized access to computer systems : penal legislation in 44 countries