Professor Rod Broadhurst and the CEPS team from the Crime, Policing, Security and Justice Centre at RegNet, recently consulted with the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to produce theComprehensive Study on Cybercrime report, released in April 2013.
 
This comprehensive study on cybercrime was presented to the 22nd session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, in Vienna in April.
 
Covering a wide spectrum of cybercrime related issues, the report looked at the impact of fragmentation at an international level and issues of diversity of national cybercrime.
 
Existing laws on international cooperation for cybercrime activities and the reliance on traditional means of formal international cooperation in criminal matters emerged as an important issue from the report. 
 
The report can be downloaded from the UNODC website.
 
And in other CEPS and Crime, Policing, Security and Justice news......
 
A team of cybercrime experts from RegNet have released a working paper reviewing cybercrime offenders.
 
Professor Roderic Broadhurst, Professor Peter Grabosky, Dr. Mamoun Alazab, Ms Brigitte Bouhours, Mr Steve Chon & Mr Chen Da, from CEPS and the Crime, Policing, Security and Justice Centre, recently published, ‘Crime in cyberspace: offenders and the role of organised crime groups’.
 
This paper examines what is currently known about cybercrime offenders and groups, and outlines the definition and scope of cybercrime, the theoretical and empirical challenges faced when studying cyber offenders, and the likely role of organised crime groups. It gives examples of known cases that illustrate individual and group behaviour, profiles typical offenders, including online child exploitation perpetrators, and describes methods and techniques commonly used to identify crimeware and trace offenders.
 

The working paper has been listed on the Social Science Research Network’s (SSRN) top ten download list for the English & Commonwealth Law eJournal, and in the topic of English Law: Criminal Law.
 
The ‘Crime in cyberspace: offenders and the role of organised crime groups’ working papers is available to view through the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).