Who Commits Computer Crime and Abuse?
The readings have shown that anyone, with sufficient access, knowledge and motivation, has the potential to commit computer crime and abuse. There was very little literature available that studies the violators as a group. Some articles give interesting background information on individuals involved in certain crimes. The National Center for Computer Crime Data (NCCCD) stated that “computer crime is much less the domain only of bright white teenage males than we thought even three years ago in our first report” (BloomBecker, 1989, p. 26). The NCCCD reported the gender of California computer crime arrestees to be 68% male and 32% female. The reported race of those arrested for computer crime in California was 55% white, 34% black, 7% Hispanic, 2% other and 2% unknown. Based on a 1988 national sample from the NCCCD, the age distribution of the arrestees showed that 85% were age 35 or less. Table 1 Age Distribution of Computer Crime Arrestees To be added (BloomBecker, 1989, p. 27) The occ
