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
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;
Conference_Titel :
New Technologies, Mobility and Security, 2008. NTMS '08.
Conference_Location :
Tangier
Print_ISBN :
978-1-42443547-0
DOI :
10.1109/NTMS.2008.ECP.96