Features of criminal activity in cyberspace are considered, the dynamics and structure of cybercrimes, the specifics of the use of special knowledge during the investigation of cybercrimes are ...analyzed. Typical tasks of extracting computer information about economic activity are considered in the context of the possibilities for their solution by various subjects of special knowledge. The boundaries of the participation of an investigator (interrogator), a specialist in the field of economics and a specialist in the field of computer technology, have been determined. It is substantiated that at present, the field of computer technologies has passed from the sphere of special to the sphere of generally known knowledge and can be used directly by the investigator to solve the problems of contextual information retrieval and identifying local databases of accounting programs. It is recommended to involve a specialist in the field of computer technology only if the examination carried out by the investigator did not give a positive result. It is argued that the optimal procedural form of using special knowledge for the purpose of searching and detecting computer information in the course of investigating economic crimes is the participation in the investigative examination of a specialist in the field of economics together with a specialist in the field of computer technology.
The paper is theoretically based on the concept of "postindustrial" (information) society 1 where the importance of education is emphasized and caused by changes in the structure of employment rate, ...growing intellectual labor exigence as well as higher unemployment rate of individuals of the lowest educational category. Therefore higher secondary and tertiary education are becoming frequently the basic prerequisite for entering in new technological spheres and labor market in the information society where both service and production are more and more complicated. The attained education level - theoretical knowledge, professional specialization and understanding of inter-disciplinary relationships thus play the key role in furnishing the individuals with knowledge and skills necessary for a successful integration in social and economic life.
This report describes the case of Henry Lee Lucas, who is estimated to have confessed to over 600 murders in the early 1980s. He is the most prolific serial confessor in recent history and is ...currently on death row in Texas, awaiting his execution. The author interviewed Mr Lucas in 1996 and conducted a detailed psychological evaluation at the request of his defence team, the results of which were presented to an appeal judge by way of two lengthy depositions. The psychological evaluation provided an important insight into the factors that make a serial false confessor. It showed how personality disorder, combined with poor self-esteem, an eagerness to please, high anxiety and compliance, a pathological need for notoriety, custodial pressures and manipulative interrogation tactics, can result in multiple false confessions to murder.
Describes the case of Henry Lee Lucas, who is estimated to have confessed to over 600 murders in the early 1980s. He is the most prolific serial confessor in recent history and is currently on death ...row in Texas, awaiting his execution. Shows how personality disorder, combined with poor self-esteem, an eagerness to please, high anxiety and compliance, a pathological need for notoriety, custodial pressure and manipulative interrogation tactics, can result in multiple false confessions to murder. (Original abstract - amended)
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