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ACR 7175 - Technology and Crime

(1 unit)
Provides an overview concerning how computers and social media have enhanced criminal enterprises, provided new mechanisms for predation, and bred new crimes and new responses. Addresses such topics as how technology has advanced crime and predation, how emerging technologies challenge existing laws and criminal procedures, how nation-states regulate criminal conduct across traditional geographic and political boundaries, what reasonable expectations of privacy are in cyberspace; computer use in traditional crimes like financial crimes, drug trafficking, extortion, securities fraud, sex crimes and child pornography, and political terrorism; identity theft and online fraud; electronic interception, search and seizure, and surveillance; and cyberterror.