Welcome
The Centre for CyberCrime Studies (Cycris) is an academic expertise centre in cybercrime in the Netherlands, which is currently being set up. It is a joint endeavour between the universities of Nijmegen and Tilburg. The centre aims to bring together technical, organisational, and legal expertise and research activities in the area of cyber crime in order to produce up-to-date scientific output and (contract) evaluations and advice.
Cycris aims to connect technical knowledge with legal knowledge concerning cybercrime, both on the academical and on the practical level. The underlying aim is to create new insights in the theory and practice of cybercrime. From the technical perspective (ICIS Nijmegen), the multidisciplinary research creates insights in the technical possibilities and impossibilities for committing cybercrime but also for analyzing and combating it. As to combating cybercrime, prevention, detection and the preservation of digital evidence are relevant. From the legal and organisational perspective (TILT Tilburg, Criminal Law Institute in Nijmegen), the research provides insights in the possibilities and impossibilities of the regulation of technology and the regulation by means of technology, insights in the actual incidence of cybercrime, and its impact on victims, citizens and government. On the law-enforcement side, the research will help to set priorities, bring relevant expertise together and will bridge the gap between theory (law, concepts) and practice.
Altogether the research will offer insights that can be used to improve legislation, that will help to prevent and to prosecute cybercrime, and to assist victims of cybercrime. The main question that the Cycris wishes to address is: Based on a scientific analysis, what combination of instruments (including legislation, regulation, social norms, economic and technical measures) can best be applied in order to keep cybercrime under control, in terms of prevention, detection and prosecution?
Consult our kick-off document.(external link)
Cybercrime Symposium
Together with ECP.nl, we organised a symposium on Cybercrime on December 6, 2007. Here are a few impressions.
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