• DocumentCode
    1579103
  • Title

    The Relationship between Cyber Crime and Mental Illness

  • Author

    Kabeer, Shabana ; Shaikh, Maqbool Uddin

  • Author_Institution
    Health Inf. Dept., COMSATS Inst. of Inf. Technol., Islamabad
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    In this paper an attempt is made to describe the relationship between cyber crime and mental illness. It will create awareness among people about cyber crimes and criminality due to mental illness. Computers and the internet make many actions easier for us. They also make many unlawful activities easier for criminals such as the sharing of, copy right infringement, stock manipulation, child pornography and a range of scams. In order to understand the criminal activity it is important to understand the main factor behind the criminal activity for e.g. mental illness.
  • Keywords
    Internet; psychology; security of data; Internet; child pornography; computers; copy right infringement; criminal activity; cyber crime; mental illness; stock manipulation; Biomedical informatics; Computer science; Computer viruses; Information technology; Internet; Mental disorders; Pathology; Pediatrics; Psychology; Tides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    New Technologies, Mobility and Security, 2008. NTMS '08.
  • Conference_Location
    Tangier
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-42443547-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NTMS.2008.ECP.96
  • Filename
    4689150