'Pleased to Meet You Won't You Guess My Name?': Identity Fraud, Cyber-crime and White-collar Delinquency
Henry N. Pontell · Adelaide law review · 2002
This paper documents the growing relationships between identity fraud, cybercrime and 'white-collar delinquency' (which refers to adolescents - primarily hackers - who, by virtue of access to computers and the Internet, can now engage in major economic crimes that were once the exclusive realm of adults). Computer-savvy teenagers, who engage in cyber-crimes, including the theft and destruction of databases and personal information, increasingly commit serious economic offences, including identity fraud. Using available data from both Australia and the United States, etiology, control and policy issues are addressed through a review of case studies and theoretical concerns in criminology regarding juvenile delinquency, surveillance, technology, and white-collar crime.