ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that juxtaposed to declining crime trends and reduced opportunities for 'traditional crimes' to occur, there has been a technological revolution, which over the last 20 years, has centred around the Internet and related technologies. It also argues that this technological evolution has created a 'fraudogenic' environment, in which the 'criminal justice complex', by which people mean criminal justice bodies, politicians and many criminologists have been 'behind the curve'. The chapter utilizes the United Kingdom (UK) as the basis for discussion, but examples where relevant from other industrialised countries will also be used. It explains the concept of fraud and the technological aspects of it. The chapter also utilizes the themes of opportunity, globalisation, risk and responsibilisation to illustrate some of the major changes. Cyber-enabled crimes are traditional crimes, which can be increased in their scale or reach by use of computers, computer networks or other forms of information communications technology (ICT).
