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Cybercrime in Taiwan – An Analysis of Suspect Records

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Intelligence and Security Informatics (WISI 2006)

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This paper explores the increasing number of cybercrime cases in Taiwan and examines the demographic characteristics of the criminals responsible for the criminal activity. The report is based upon data taken from the Criminal Investigation Bureau of Taiwan cybercrime database over the interval of 1999 through 2004. The paper defines cybercrime, addresses cybercrime case statistics and examines profiles of the suspects’ characteristics. The findings show that the top five categories of crime committed over the past six years are sex trading or sex trading on the Internet, Internet fraud, larceny, cyber piracy and cyber pornography. As for the suspects’ characteristics, the findings show that 81.1% were male; 45.5% had some senior high school education exposure; 63.1% acted independently; 23.7% were currently enrolled students; and 29.1% were in the 18-23 age bracket which was the majority group. Finally, this paper proposes four recommendations to governments, society, schools, and researchers to reduce cycbercrime.

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  1. Department of Information Management, Overseas Chinese Institute of Technology, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan

    WenYuan Jen

  2. Department of Information Management, National Central University, Chung-Li, 32054, Taiwan

    Weiping Chang & Shihchieh Chou

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  1. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China

    Fei-Yue Wang

  3. Drexel University, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Christopher C. Yang

  4. MIS Department, University of Arizona, and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Daniel Zeng

  5. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Michael Chau

  6. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore

    Kuiyu Chang

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Jen, W., Chang, W., Chou, S. (2006). Cybercrime in Taiwan – An Analysis of Suspect Records. In: Chen, H., Wang, FY., Yang, C.C., Zeng, D., Chau, M., Chang, K. (eds) Intelligence and Security Informatics. WISI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3917. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11734628_5

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