LW655: Cybercrime Syllabus Outline

Week 1: Reading week.
Week 2: Introduction: Defining Cybercrime
Week 3: Speech Crimes I: The European Convention on Cybercrime, E-Commerce
Directive and ISP liability – Felix Somm et al.Lloyd Chapter 11 & Chapter 28, pp640-6, Chapter 31, pp692-701.
Week 4: Speech Crimes II: European Convention Protocol Xenophobia and Yahoo!
Lloyd Chapter 15
Week 5: Technology and Crime: Broadband and Mobile
Home Office Reports on Cybercrime
Week 6: Surveillance and the State
Lloyd Chapter 13
Week 7: International Case Study: Spam, DOS attacks, Phishing
Lloyd Chapter 13 Chapter 14
Week 8: Cyberterrorism: Guest Seminar by Richard Starnes
Lloyd Chapter 16
Week 9: Civil Liberties and Jurisdiction Issues
Chapter 20, pp463-492.
Week 10: Concluding session.