A useful definition of "cyber-crime" is used in a 2002 Statistics Canada publication on cyber-crime: "a criminal offence involving a computer as the object of the crime, or the tool used to commit a material component of the offence." See Melanie Kowalski, Cyber-crime: Issues, Data Sources, and Feasibility of Collecting Police-Reported Statistics. (Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 2002)
Richard Gill & Kelly Watson, "Review of Recent Literature on Criminal Harassment" (Ottawa: Department of Justice Canada, forthcoming in 2004); and Louise Ellison & Yaman Akdeniz, "Cyber-stalking: the Regulation of Harassment on the Internet" [1998] Criminal Law Review (December special edition: crime, criminal justice and the Internet) 29.
Sam Diener, Educators for Social Responsibility, 2003, v.1.9
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