ABSTRACT
Cyber crime today operates at the scale of and with the sophistication of a global industry. As part of the emerging debate about the need to embrace a comprehensive views of cyber crime, this chapter focuses on developing a taxonomy for cyber crime in the financial sector that takes account of the nature of the crime, its motivations and the interactions among different types of cyber crimes. Cyber crime is complex. In order to map the relationships and interactions among different concepts of cyber crime, the author have used cognitive mapping. Cognitive mapping is a type of visual thinking approach which focus on two things: making ideas explicit and exploring the relationships between ideas. Criminals have many broad motivations to commit cyber crime: financial, political, economic or even recreational. Depending on their capabilities and the loopholes they can find in the technological and social systems, they choose various criminal channels to achieve their ends and satisfy their motivations.
