Cyber Crime Essay

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CYBER CRIME IN INDIA Viney Kumar Vth Sem. Department of Computer Science and Engineering Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon-123506 (Hr.) India bv_00786@yahoo.in __________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT Cybercrime deals with the crimes related to computer world. There is a very little difference between conventional crime and cyber crime as both are forms of crime.the term is nowhere is defined in dictionary. The cyber crime includes the crime in which computer is involved in some format. The term is still a misnomer. Now we have to discuss the concept of cybercrime. [pic] INTRODUCTION The term ‘cyber crime’ has not an unique definition. This term has nowhere been defined in any act passed by the Indian Parliament. The concept of cyber crime is not more different from the concept of conventional crime. Both include conduct whether act or omission, which cause breach of rules of law and counterbalanced by the rules of the government. Before discussing about the consequences of cyber crime it is helpful to know about the conventional crime. Then we can discuss the similarities and differences between conventional crimes and cyber crimes. | CONVENTIONAL CRIME:- | | | Crime is a an economic phenomenon and it is very old as the human society. Crime is a legal concept and has the sanction of the | | |law. Crime is defined as “a legal wrong that can be followed by criminal proceedings which may result into punishment.” | | |(1) The hallmark of criminality is that, it is breach of the criminal law. Per Lord Atkin “the criminal quality of an act cannot be | | |discovered by reference to any standard but one: is the act prohibited with penal
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