Between Hackers and White-Collar Offenders

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Author(s): Orly Turgeman-Goldschmidt (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 20
Source title: Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime: Social Dynamics and Implications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Thomas J. Holt (Michigan State University, USA)and Bernadette H. Schell (President's Advisor on Cybercrime, University of Ontario, Canada; Vice-Provost at Laurentian University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-805-6.ch002

Keywords: Digital Crime & Forensics / Information Science Reference / IT Security and Ethics / Security & Forensics

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Scholars often view hacking as one category of computer crime, and computer crime as white-collar crime. However, no study to date has examined the extent to which hackers exhibit the same characteristics as white-collar offenders. This chapter looks at empirical data drawn from 54 face-to-face interviews with Israeli hackers, in light of the literature in the field of white-collar offenders, concentrating on their accounts and socio-demographic characteristics. Hackers and white-collar offenders differ significantly in age and in their accounts. White-collar offenders usually act for economic gain; hackers act for fun, curiosity, and opportunities to demonstrate their computer virtuosity. Hackers, in contrast to white-collar offenders, do not deny their responsibility, nor do they tell a “sad tale.”

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