ABSTRACT

This chapter examines how Cyberspace in particular lends itself to all these activities and assembles analogies from the wider field of cyber crime about which there is more information in the public domain. Cyberspace may be considered as: a metaphor for describing the non-physical terrain created by computer systems. Cyberspace can be used to describe simply the World Wide Web, the Internet as a whole and also to include all global media and communication channels. Cyber crime has become part of everyday business for organized crime' and now cyber terrorism is part of everyday activity for terrorists. This cyber tools and the development of a positive attitude in the population and as such applications such as True Vision, a new system for reporting hate crime and online local crime mapping are just the beginning of cyber front-line developments for creating a safer world using social networks to affect social control.