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Crime and Punishment: The Psychology of Hacking in the New Millennium

Overview In order to effectively combat computer crime and discourage hacking activity, lawmakers and computer professionals must understand the motivation behind this activity. The hacking community is a diverse and complicated universe, comprised of multiple skill layers and motivations. This paper discusses the different subcultures in the hacking community, the different motivations of the various subgroups and a simple explanation of the research involving the social learning theory and computer crime, in order to explain this behavior.

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Publisher	The SANS Institute	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	December 2003	Downloads	5
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Management, Network Security, Anti-Hacking

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