Theory of Technology-enabled Crime, Policing, and Security in United States

Theory of Technology-enabled Crime, Policing, and Security

Overview of Theory of Technology-enabled Crime, Policing, and Security in relation to cyber crime: [1] The forgoing hypotheses provide a framework for understanding all forms of criminality and especially those that are evolving with computing and telecommunications technology inventions and innovations. Developed initially as a concept paper by the author (McQuade, 1998), the theory was later expanded and provisionally tested by him in doctoral dissertation research that triangulated findings using three research methods, including: (1) content analysis of purposive expert interview transcripts, (2) history construction of the technology of money laundering as a proxy for several forms of increasingly complex IT-enabled crimes, and (3) archival records examination comparing federal money laundering prosecution cases for evidence of increasing technological complexity before and after the onset of the World Wide Web (i.e., 1986–1992 and 1993–1999).

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Notes and References

1. By Samuel C. McQuade, III

See Also

• Types of Cybercrime
• Cybercriminal

Further Reading

McQuade, S.C. (1998). Towards a theory of technology-enabled crime. Unpublished manuscript: George Mason University; McQuade, S.C. (2001). Cops versus crooks: Technological competition and complexity in the co-evolution of information technologies and money laundering. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University; McQuade, S.C. (2005). Technology-enabled crime, policing and security. Journal of Technology Studies, 33(1), 32–42; McQuade, S.C. (2008). Cybercrime: New conundrums and challenges in the paradigm of evolving criminality. In Michael Tonry (ed.), Handbook of criminal justice. New York: Oxford University Press.