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Insights into Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence:
A Basic Introduction for Non-Technicians
Lecturer
The course is written and presented by Steven David Brown
Details
Description
Technology defines modern society and penetrates every aspect of our lives. It has created new avenues for criminals to exploit and, as a consequence, criminal justice professionals are required to develop their professional vocabulary, develop their skills and adopt new perspectives.
This course introduces the main themes, threats, challenges and conundrums posed by this most modern of crime phenomena and explores the main solutions designed to address them.
It’s a technical topic, but Insights into Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence explains the technology simply and in relation to every day, common experience rendering the subject more accessible for those without a technical background.
You can expect ten chapters of video content supported by exercises and quizzes that will help you check your new knowledge and understanding of the subject matter. If something is unclear, you can return and review the relevant content.
Learning objective
By completing this course participants will:
- understand the main types and characteristics of cybercrime and how they are perpetrated and
- learn the major technical and legal challenges involved in gathering and processing electronic evidence and how they can be addressed.
Curriculum
01. Defining Cybercrime
02. What is Evidence?
03. Bits and Pieces
04. The Computer Chronicles
05. Who Hacks?
06. Delving in the Digitals
07. Knowing your onions
08. Spamming
09. Passwords
10. Currency in Bits
11.1 Afterword part 1
Ultimate quiz
11.2 Afterword part 2
Duration
5 hours 20 minutes and 1 hour 20 minutes for the Ultimate Quiz.
Lecturer
Steven David Brown is a specialist in criminal justice with a particular focus on integrity, criminal intelligence, electronic evidence and computer-based crime. Although a barrister of the Inner Temple, he left the Bar to become a police officer with London’s Metropolitan Police Service later serving with the National Criminal Intelligence Service and Europol. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner, holds a Graduate Diploma in Financial Crime Prevention from the International Compliance Association and has worked in the international arena since 2001 including periods as the Senior Law Enforcement Advisor for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in Central Asia, policy advisor on law enforcement to the EU Advisory Group in Armenia and as project manager for the EU/Council of Europe’s Global Action on Cybercrime initiative.
Steven has published a number of articles in peer reviewed journals and is the editor of and major contributor to the textbook “Combating International Crime: The longer arm of the law” (Routledge: 2008). He regularly lectures on electronic evidence and cybercrime and his online course, ‘Insights into cybercrime and electronic evidence’, currently has more than 5,000 students from 140 countries.