Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in the Context of Development: The Current Trend of and the Countermeasures to Computer Crimes (From Report for 1989 and Resource Material Series No. 37, P 197-203, 1990 -- See NCJ-135691)

• NCJ Number: 135702
• Author(s): S Ogawa
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 7 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Survey (Cross-Cultural)
• Language: English
• Country: Japan

Annotation

Computer-related crime has become an increasing problem in Japan in recent years and has generated countermeasures that include law reforms and security measures.

Abstract

The most common crimes are the theft of funds from another person's bank account through the use of cash dispensing cards. Other crimes include falsifying or erasing programs and data, physical destruction of a computer, unauthorized access to data, unauthorized use of computers, introduction of computer viruses, and using a computer to simulate a crime in preparation for committing another type of crime. Countermeasures have included the addition of new provisions to the Penal Code in 1987 and the use of added physical and data security measures. Table