Cyber-crime Science = Crime Science + Information Security

Cyber-crime Science is an emerging area of study aiming to prevent cyber-crime by combining security protection techniques from Information Security with empirical research methods used in Crime Science. Information security research has developed techniques for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets but is less strong on the empirical study of the effectiveness of these techniques. Crime Science studies the effect of crime prevention techniques empirically in the real world, and proposes improvements to these techniques based on this. Combining both approaches, Cyber-crime Science transfers and further develops Information Security techniques to prevent cyber-crime, and empirically studies the effectiveness of these techniques in the real world. In this paper we review the main contributions of Crime Science as of today, illustrate its application to a typical Information Security problem, namely phishing, explore the interdisciplinary structure of Cyber-crime Science, and present an agenda for research in Cyber-crime Science in the form of a set of suggested research questions

Criminaliteitspreventie: beleid en technologie

Het doel van Crime Science is om criminaliteit en overlast zo goed mogelijk te onderzoeken en te analyseren om vervolgens te bepalen hoe, met effectief beleid en technische middelen, ervoor kan worden gezorgd dat criminaliteit kan worden voorkomen. De bedoeling is om zowel met betrekking tot het onderwijs als met betrekking tot het onderzoek alle docenten en onderzoekers op de UT die iets te maken hebben met criminaliteit en/of veiligheid samen te brengen om meer samenwerking, coördinatie en nieuwe onderwijs en onderzoek tot stand te brengen

Book Review

Book review of both "People or Penguins, The Case for Optimal Pollution" by William F. Baxter. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. and "Environmental Law and Policy" by Eva H. Hanks, A. Dan Tarlock, & John L. Hanks. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1974

The Scientific Integrity of Applied Research

This paper reviews some of the threats to scientific independence in the Netherlands that have recently alerted the scientific community. The problems are not only apparent in research requested by the government or local authorities; they are also found in a variety of research fields. They are essentially related to the increasing dearth of research funding in the universities. In Europe in general, and the Netherlands in particular, there are no large, independent research foundations which exist elsewhere, so research funding generally depends on funding by government, local authorities or industry. The problem has long been underappreciated and no effective action has been taken. However, more recently and as a consequence of media reports, a number of drastic measures are being taken. This paper deals first with the nature of the threats to the integrity of scientific research, and then reviews the type of actions that have been, and could be take