NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY Volume 4 Article 4 Issue 1 Fall 2002 10-1-2002 Organized Cybercrime - How Cyberspace May Affect the Structure of Criminal Relationships Susan W. Brenner Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncjolt Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Susan W. Brenner, Organized Cybercrime - How Cyberspace May Affect the Structure of Criminal Relationships, 4 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 1 (2002). Available at: http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncjolt/vol4/iss1/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology by an authorized administrator of Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. NORTH CAROLINAJOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1: FALL 2002 Article: Organized Cybercrime? How Cyberspace May Affect the Structure of Criminal Relationships Susan W. Brenner' I. Introduction "It is hard to say what forms the organisedcrime will take in the future, but the reality is not very far from some sciencefiction movies. ,,2 The twentieth century marked the era when organized crime,3 typically equated with the Mafia or La Cosa Nostra, became a widely recognized and widely studied phenomenon. Organized crime in the La Cosa Nostra sense burst into the American awareness in the 1950's and 1960's as a result of Senator Estes Kefauver's inquiries,a the McClellan Committee hearings,5 and the Congressional testimony of Joe Valachi, who was the first Mafia soldier to breach the mob's code of silence.6 1NCR Distinguished Professor of Law & Technology, University of Dayton School of Law.