Computer Science in Criminal Justice

Computer Science in Criminal Justice

1 Introduction
As technology has become more and more advanced so have criminals. In order to keep of with these new crimes officers need to know about them and know about ways to stop them. This paper will cover three topics, which every new officer should know about; common computer crimes, computer use in computer crime investigations and computers in police cars.
2 Common Computer Crimes
With the advent of computers, there came a whole new category of crime. Not only do computers allow for new types of crime, but they also provide new avenues for all types of crime. This section will cover some of the more common crimes that involve computers.
2.1 Child Pornography / Solicitation
There are many way in which computers are used in the sexual exploitation of children. Some of those ways include when users knowingly sends or receives pornographic images of children, accessing computer bulletin boards or chat rooms and knowin...