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CYBER CRIME AND INFORMATION WARFARE
Dr Peter Grabosky
Australian Institute of Criminology, ACT
Paper presented at the Transnational Crime Conference
convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology
in association with the Australian Federal Police and
Australian Customs Service
and held in Canberra, 9-10 March 2000
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Introduction
Willie Sutton, a notorious American bank robber of a half century ago, was once asked why he
persisted in robbing banks. “Because that’s where the money is,” he is said to have replied.1 The
theory that crime follows opportunity has become established wisdom in criminology;
opportunity reduction has become one of the fundamental principles of crime prevention.
But there is more to crime than opportunity. Crime requires a pool of motivated offenders,
and a lack of what criminologists would refer to as “capable guardianship”; someone to mind
the store, so to speak.
These basic principles of criminology apply to computer related......

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