They can increase funding for law-enforcement personnel and funding for more training and equipment to investigate and prosecute cybercriminals. Hard-working police and prosecutors cannot win the battle if their equipment is not as sophisticated as that used by criminals.
Besides the interactionist, perspective on computer crime is the conflict theory. "The conflict theory states that people in power maintain their advantage by using the law to protect their own interest." (Kendall; 168). Under the conflict perspective, hackers and other computer criminals are seen as deviant because many hackers break into large companies for the "mindless desire for glory (Pitchford; pages 10-13). " However besides hackers lack of any real criminal desires they are still seen as deviant because they blatantly while doing their hacking. .
Since the Internet is a global tool, many of the crimes that are committed extend beyond national borders. For this reason the advent of computer crime have made the global community smaller. What one hacker does on his computer in another country affects you and I. This can be seen with the recent virus "Love bug", this virus disabled computer systems world wide (Washington Times, 5/18/2000). Yet, because of the quickly advancing computer technology a cultural lag has been created. A cultural lag is a gap between the technical development of a society and its moral and legal institutions. The "Love bug" virus; a set of commands that change computer programming and sometimes destroy files, one example of a virus is a "worm, which is a self replicating program"(Pitchford pages 10-13). The "love bug" virus in the last month crippled global companies by erasing files of any computer it downloaded into. Yet, since the hacker was from the Philippines, which have no law against "computer hacking he may be able to escape any conviction (Washington Times 5/18/2000)." So the hacker who caused damage of 15 billion worldwide could get away with a crime considered a felony in the U.