Cybercrime & Cybercriminals ?
"Not all people who write computer viruses are criminals - because writing computer viruses is not (necessarily) illegal." These papers explore the development and evolution of virus writing from a developmental perspective.
Technologically Enabled Crime: Shifting Paradigms for the Year 2000 - This paper was selected for a "best paper" award at IFIPs Technical Conference in 1994.
Inside the Mind of Dark Avenger -This paper is an interview with the infamous Dark Avenger. The publishers said I was like Clarice Starling from Silence of the Lambs. I don't think so. I was just me.
The Generic Virus Writer - This paper was the first to examine the ethical development of people who were immersed in virus-writing as a hobby. It has some case studies that are part of longitudinal work (see GVWII)
The Generic Virus Writer II - This paper is a follow-up, taking a look the cyclic nature of the virus writing community
Who Writes This Stuff? - This article was commissioned by IBM Research online magazine, and talks about the nature of virus writers in the early to mid 1990s.
Virus Writers: The End of the Innocence? - This paper examines the changes in the virus writing community, and documents some shifts in 'acceptable behavior' in the computer underground.
Viruses in the Information Age - This is a three part summary of virus writing history