For the essay paper, I want you to pick a topic that interests you about cybercrime and criminal justice. Cybercrime can include cyberterror. It should address both aspects of this course— cybercrime’s causes and correlates, and the criminal justice response to cybercrime.

One possible topic would be to pick a specific cybercrime, like cyber-theft, describe the level of harm, its potential causes given the theories we have studied, and then propose a reasoned criminal justice response given what we know, which can include law, punishment, detection, investigation, and prosecution (or all components of the criminal justice system). Or you could pick a specific cybercrime and diagnose the problems we have policing it. Regardless of the topic, I want you to send me the topic along with a topic statement so that I know what you are going to write about. You should do this by week 3; so be thinking of a possible topic. Your topic sentence should be stated as a claim that you are going support with evidence. Remember that your opinion only matters if you can back it up with evidence so I want to see academic citations for any claims you make in the paper