Eric Purcell\'s \"Cyber Crime --

Eric Purcell's "Cyber Crime -- Literature Review" makes many excellent points and helps to convey the threat of cyber crime in a light that the average person can understand. However, from a constructive criticism angle, the review is rather weak in the discussion portion. The discussion of the actual meanings and correlations of the facts are not well developed. While the paper is strong in the number of facts and the way they are presented, it does not dive deeper into the correlations nor does it truly explore the consequences of cyber crime in a manner that is thought provoking. For example, the paper talks about the "CCF" as a means of categorizing cyber crimes, but does not connect this to how the CCF is adequate or inadequate in helping to categorize and potentially reduce cyber crime through investigations. Also, the paper uses cliches like "in this electronic world" and "the darker side." These certainly help paint a picture in the paper, but represent a quaint, hollow sentence structuring and do not contribute to the strengths of the paper or the facts contained within.

From a strengths point-of-view, the paper did explore some of the good and bad sides of internet communication and technology. However it was quite subjective in the way it deals with "good" and "evil" activities, s the author labeled them so based upon his own moral or legal understandings. The peer review could have taken a much more objective angle and accomplished more relative to the understanding of the activity instead of exploring the legal and moral outcomes. A literature review is no place for moral judgments; it is merely a discussion of the literature and facts surrounding a specific topic or idea. The author could benefit from being more objective and identifying the connections between the facts instead of painting a specific "good" or "evil" picture with the evidence and facts.

Terence Watkins' "The Seven Scam Types: Mapping the Terrain of Cyber Crime: A Literature Review." This literature review is much more in-depth in that it connects each piece of literature wile giving relevancy to lie to the arguments contained. The author of this review was able to use his own insight to create a picture of the cyber crime taking place without jumping to subjective moral or ethical conclusions or judgments. This is one of the paper's strengths, which also helps the paper flow smoothly and keep the reader's attention. The paper is also structured very logically and flows well given that the author was able to create a very clear and concise argument structure based upon facts and readings. This also helps the paper's main arguments by creating a logical, believable, and trustworthy framework to the connections and arguments the writer poses.