With the advent of computers and networked communications, crime was affected in two ways. First, existing crimes were simply performed on the Internet, not changing in severity but only in practice. Second, new ways to commit crimes, or new ways to commit older crimes, were introduced, forcing the government to create new laws in response. Cyber crime usually falls under a few categories involving fraud, intellectual property, theft and abuse. Accordingly, new punishments were also introduced to correspond with particular cyber crimes. Writer Bio
