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LAWE 1600 - Introduction to Cyber Crime Investigation

Credit Hours: 3.00


Prerequisites: None

(formerly LAWE 2915)

LAWE 1600 provides students with an overview of cyber crimes, computer‑related crime issues confronting the American criminal justice system, and various means of investigating those crimes.

Billable Contact Hours: 3

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OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES
Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to define traditional versus contemporary computer crime.

Objectives: The student will:

  1. Identify and discuss phreakers, hacking, computers as commodities, and theft of intellectual property.
  2. Identify and discuss neo-traditional crime, web-based criminal activity, and ancillary crimes.
  3. Define and discuss identity theft and fraud, prevalence of victimology, physical methods of virtual ID theft or internet-facilitated methods, and crimes facilitated by ID theft/fraud.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify various avenues and outcomes for prosecution and government efforts.

Objectives: The student will:

  1. Define and discuss traditional statutes, the evolution of computer-specific statutes, and evolving child pornography statutes.
  2. Identify theft and financial privacy statutes, federally funded operations and tools in the United States, and international efforts.
  3. Define the first and fourth amendment and their respective application to computer-related crime.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to describe forensic terminology/forensic science capabilities, searching and seizing computer-related evidence and processing of evidence/report preparation

Objectives: The student will:

  1. Define and discuss computer forensic science and disk structure, developing computer forensic science capabilities, minimum housing/hardware/software requirements and a sampling of popular forensic software.
  2. Identify pre-search activities, on-scene activities, bagging and tagging, identifying witnesses and scene departure/transportation of evidence to the lab.
  3. Identify and discuss aspects of data analysis, non-windows operating systems, P.D.A. forensics, and written report preparation and final documentation.

COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES (CDO)
• Communication: The graduate can communicate effectively for the intended purpose and audience.
• Critical Thinking: The graduate can make informed decisions after analyzing information or evidence related to the issue.
• Global Literacy: The graduate can analyze human behavior or experiences through cultural, social, political, or economic perspectives.
• Information Literacy: The graduate can responsibly use information gathered from a variety of formats in order to complete a task.
• Quantitative Reasoning: The graduate can apply quantitative methods or evidence to solve problems or make judgments.
• Scientific Literacy: The graduate can produce or interpret scientific information presented in a variety of formats.

CDO marked YES apply to this course:
Communication: YES
Critical Thinking: YES
Global Literacy: YES
Information Literacy: YES
Quantitative Reasoning: YES
Scientific Literacy: YES

COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
Session and Topic:

  1. Cyberspace and criminal behavior
  2. Computer terminology and history
  3. Traditional vs. contemporary computer crime
  4. ID theft/fraud
  5. Prosecution and government efforts
  6. Application of first and fourth amendments to computer-related crimes
  7. Forensic science capabilities
  8. Search and seizure/processing computer-related evidence

Primary Faculty
Bowlin, Samantha
Secondary Faculty

Associate Dean
Lopez, Michael
Dean
Mirijanian, Narine



Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088



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