From Risk Society to Network Society: Preventing Cybercrimes in the 21st Century

This article discusses cybercrime prevention in the context of transformation of current society from risk society to network society. At first, it reviews current academic and professional literature on technology risks, human risks, and different categorizations of cybercrimes and introduces a model for the relationships between the risk categories and cybercrime categories. The rest of the paper deals with the issue by introducing examples on how technology development networks but also nontechnology oriented social networks could be utilized to make cyberspace more secure. The paper also sheds some light on under-researched topics and makes proposals for future research.