To all interested!!! - The Future of high- and Information-Technology Crime: Delphi-Inquiry!
Kerstin Svensson
To all interested!!! - The Future of high- and Information-Technology
Crime: Delphi-Inquiry!
Dear reader!
My name is Kerstin Svensson and I am trying to carry through my graduate
paper for a B.A.-degree in criminology in Sweden. The exampaper is built on
a study using a Delphi-inquiry. The objective of the study is an attempt to
forecast the direction and form that criminal activity against High- and
Information-Technology might take over the course of the next five years.
The study is using the Delphi-technique to generate a possible picture of
the problems. The Delphi technique is constructed to obtain a consensus
opinion from a group of participants. The gathering of information is being
done both from professional or non-professional persons working or acting
in the selected problem-area.. The technique has the participants to
complete several related questionnaires.
The disposition of this study is in three parts. The first part consist of
nine "open ended" question which all participants are asked to give there
opinions about. The second part is a questionnaire created from the answers
given by the participants in the first one. In this the group are asked to
agree/disagree with information on the questionnaire The second
questionnaires responses is then analyzed to determine the consensus of the
group. This consensus is further determine in a third, and a last,
questionnaire.
Participants in this study remain anonymous to each other during the
research process. This is a precautionary measure so the information is
neither skewed by personalities nor other factors.
I am looking forward to receive your participation!
Reply to: kerstin_...@hotmail.com
Thanks in advance!
Yours Sincerely,
Kerstin Svensson, Stockholm; Sweden
Reply to: kerstin_...@hotmail.com
The First Questionnaire
1. In your opinion, what area(s) of high- and information-technology will
be the focus of criminal activity in the next five years?
2. In your opinion, what area(s) of high- and information-technology will
be specially vulnerable for criminal activity in the next five years?
3. In your opinion, which types of criminal organization(s) or
individual(s) will constitute the biggest threat against high- and
information-technology in the next five years?
4. What form(s) do you believe this criminal activity against high- and
information technology will take?
5. What steps should be taken in the near future to prepare the police to
combat this criminal activity?
6. What steps should be taken in the near future to protect society from
this type of criminal activity?
7. What judicial measure should in the near future, be accomplish to
create the possibility for legal actions against new forms of criminal
activity against high- and information-technology?
8. Do you believe the responsibility for criminal investigation of high-
and information-technology crimes will be primarily that of government or
private businesses? Why?
9. Do you believe the responsibility for crime prevention activities
regarding high- and information-technology crimes will be primarily that of
government or private businesses? Why?