Criminological Reflection About The Theft Of Virtual Property Crimes

The popular of network lifestyle is an important form of science and techology and social development, also the network community has gradually become an indispensable life and entertainment platform. Since the interaction among people with high simulation, there must be certain scarce goods demands and transactions between the goods to goods, between the goods to services and between the services to services, they both generates network virtual property. Network virtual property is of a great value, it can be exchanged and traded with the real world property and currency, hence there is a big demand spaces and a stable interest chain exsist. The criminal has always come after the interests, so that the unstable people take the risk to crime because of the great temptation. For property crime, mostly are the network thefts and virtual property crime of theft are even the most.Compare to the traditional type of theft crime, the virtual property crime with new features because of its high technology elements. Form the network offender's angle, first, the average age of the offender assume juvenile delinquency feature. According to statistics, the average age of computer criminals is 25 years old. Second, the offender generally has higher computer technology to handle some high tech computer software, tools. From the network victim's angle, the victim is mainly includes the regular internet users who often play online games in particular with barely knowledge of the computer skill, and the characteristics of the victim's subjective point is awareness of law sense, carelessness, greed for cheap and so on. From the theft means part, the main types include the original type and high-tech type, which both are quite a novelty and concealment.From the crime targets'angle, it mainly includes types of electronic money, virtual goods and electronic accounts, those objects are considerable novelty with high technology. The causes of the virtual property theft crimes are complex. For the social reasons, it mainly includes the aspects of lack of the crime konwledge, negligence of the legislation, weak control of internet spaces from the government and weak judicial crackdown for the crimes. At the same time, the social prevention of virtual property theft also has some objective difficulties. For the reason of the victim, it inludes the aspects of low level of network technology and awareness of the crime prevention.There must be some prevention programs based on the rampant virtual property crime of theft. One hand, it should take the well prevention measures, inluding the following: first, it should improve the legislative attention, second, focus on network virtual property monitor strengthen, once again, to sthengthen the awareness education of people, and finally, focus on the computer network basic technology spread. On the other hand, it should increase the crime crackdown afterwards. First, it should increase the lauch a tough justice crackdown on virtual property crime of theft. Second, it must strives to improve the technology and facilities standard for monitoring and detecting the virtual property crime of theft of stare organs.The virtual property theft, as the real one, not only foreseeable, but also can be preventive controlled. There should be no unnecessary concerns about dealing with such high-tech crime. The prevention of virtual property theft should conducted by all sectors of society developing realistic policy and in line with China's national conditions to conduct effective prevention of the kind of crime, and to avoid further spread of even greater losses.