Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Currency exchange rates
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Defining and Measuring Cyber Crime
- Chapter Three The Prosecutor as Gatekeeper
- Chapter Four Cross-Border Issues
- Chapter Five Strategies of Cyber Crime Litigation
- Chapter Six The Quest for Harmonisation of Cyber Crime Laws
- Chapter Seven Judicial Punishment in Cyberspace
- Chapter Eight Sentencing Cyber Criminals
- Chapter Nine Conclusions
- References
- Appendix A Case Summaries 1972–2003
- Appendix B Selected Legislative Summaries
- Index
Chapter One - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Currency exchange rates
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Defining and Measuring Cyber Crime
- Chapter Three The Prosecutor as Gatekeeper
- Chapter Four Cross-Border Issues
- Chapter Five Strategies of Cyber Crime Litigation
- Chapter Six The Quest for Harmonisation of Cyber Crime Laws
- Chapter Seven Judicial Punishment in Cyberspace
- Chapter Eight Sentencing Cyber Criminals
- Chapter Nine Conclusions
- References
- Appendix A Case Summaries 1972–2003
- Appendix B Selected Legislative Summaries
- Index
Summary
… you have pleaded guilty to fourteen counts of what might conveniently be described as ‘hacking’ offences under Part 6A, being offences relating to computers.… You were 20 at the time of the commission of these offences. You are a final year accountancy student at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology … you have no previous convictions and have an unblemished record … it is accepted that your motive was no more than to test your computer skills … it was said by your counsel that you became addicted to your computer in much the same way as an alcoholic becomes addicted to the bottle …
I formed the view that a custodial sentence is appropriate in respect of each of these offences because of the seriousness of them, and having regard to the need to demonstrate that the community will not tolerate this type of offence. Our society is being increasingly served by and dependent upon the use of computer technology. Conduct of the kind in which you engaged poses a threat to the usefulness of that technology, and I think it is incumbent upon the courts in appropriate cases to see to it that the sentences they impose reflect the gravity of this kind of criminality …
You are convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of six months … but you may be released forthwith upon your giving security by recognisance in each instance in the sum of $500 to be of good behaviour for a term of six months.
County Court of Victoria, at Melbourne, 3 June 1993, per Judge Smith- Type
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- Cyber Criminals on Trial , pp. 1 - 4Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004