Understanding the Perpetration of Employee Computer Crime in the Organisational Context

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dc.contributor.author	Willison, Robert	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-02-04T10:23:46Z
dc.date.available	2009-02-04T10:23:46Z
dc.date.issued	2006-02-20T00:00:00Z	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6463
dc.description.abstract	While hackers and viruses fuel the IS security concerns for organisations, the problems posed by employee computer crime should not be underestimated. Indeed, a growing number of IS security researchers have turned their attention to the ‘insider’ threat. However, to date, there has been a lack of insight into the relationship between the actual behaviour of offenders during the perpetration of computer crime, and the organisational context in which the behaviour takes place. To address this deficiency, this paper advances two criminological theories, which it is argued can be used to examine the stages an offender must go through in order for a crime to be committed. In addition, this paper illustrates how the two theories, entitled the Rational Choice Perspective and Situational Crime Prevention, can be applied to the IS domain, thereby offering a theoretical basis on which to analyse the offender/context relationship during the perpetration of computer crime. By so doing, practitioners may use these insights to inform and enhance the selection of safeguards in a bid to improve prevention programmes.	en_US
dc.format.extent	39 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working paper;2006-004	en_US
dc.subject.other	edb-sikkerhed	en_US
dc.subject.other	edb-kriminalitet	en_US
dc.subject.other	medarbejderkriminalitet	en_US
dc.subject.other	virksomhedens sikkerhed	en_US
dc.subject.other	virksomhedens informationsteknologi	en_US
dc.subject.other	is security	en_US
dc.subject.other	criminology	en_US
dc.subject.other	employee computer crime	en_US
dc.subject.other	perpetration	en_US
dc.title	Understanding the Perpetration of Employee Computer Crime in the Organisational Context	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt06feb20 mielmo	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Informatik	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	INF	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Informatics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	INF	en_US
dc.idnumber	x656517364	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2006	en_US