The aim:
1. The student acquires knowledge of the basic concepts regarding cybercrimes and types of cybercrimes, documenting cybercrimes for the purposes of legal proceedings and protection against cybercrimes (preserving cybersecurity).
2. The student acquires the ability to identify certain social behavior as cybercrime within the meaning of international, EU and Polish legal acts.
3. The student is prepared to solve problems related to cybercrime and cybersecurity in the organization.

Acquired knowledge:
1. The student has knowledge of the role of state bodies and international authorities in counteracting cybercrime, their structure and competences, including the type of procedures relating to the prevention and combating cybercrime.
2. The student knows the basic principles of criminal liability and the principles of punishing cybercrimes, as well as the scope of criminalization of cybercrimes, as well as the types of repressive proceedings aimed at punishing cybercrime perpetrators, their basic principles and institutions.
3. The student has knowledge of cybercrime as a social phenomenon, its types, causes, size, intensity, dynamics, structure, its measurement techniques, taking into account the achievements of related sciences – in respect of victims of cybercrime.

Acquired skills:
1. The student understands and uses terminology in the field of legal and social sciences regarding cybercrime.
2. The student is able to identify and analyze phenomena of the nature of cybercrimes, diagnose the directions of their development, as well as indicate appropriate tools for counteracting and preventing cybercrime.
3. The student is able to interpret and properly apply legal regulations, as well as find and interpret bibliographic sources regarding cybercrime.
4. The student has the ability to use the acquired knowledge in the field of cybercrime to solve practical problems.
5. The student is able to formulate his own views and assessments in relation to various practical problems related to cybercrime.
6. The student is able to prepare an independent pesonal opinion on a topic related to cybercrime.

Acquired social skills:
1. The student is aware of the need for continuous self-development through further education in the field of cybercrime.
2. The student is prepared for active action (analysis, assessment, decision) in the field of combating cybercrime in the judiciary and law enforcement agencies, government and local government institutions, social organizations, as well as the private sector.
3. The student is able to work in a team, has the ability to argue and counter-argue in disputes regarding the assessment of a certain behavior as a cybercrime, think and act in a creative way.
4. The student is responsible for his own preparation for work and the activities carried out and the presentation of their effects.
5. The student is familiar with the issues of cybercrime threats, taking into account its types and international aspect, and willingly takes the initiative in preventive actions and in the field of drawing legal consequences against cybercriminals.
6. The student is familiar with the issues of cybercrime threats, taking into account its type and international aspect.
7. The student is self-reliant, creative, able to supplement the acquired knowledge and train skills in the field of cybercrime.

Course contents: 
1. Organizational information (rules of passing, topics of classes, lecturer’s duty hours, etc.).
2. Cyberspace. Technology and network development (Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Internet of Things, smart city, cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, etc.).
3. Various forms of cybercrimes (industrial espionage, theft of information, theft of identity, hacking, grooming, distribution of illegal content via the Internet, disseminating malicious software, unauthorized alteration of computer systems and software, ransomware, phishing, cyberbullying, etc.).
4. Polish cybercrime regulations – the Penal Code.
5. Cyber tort.
6. Collecting evidence of cybercrime or cybertort for the purposes of legal proceedings.
7. Cybersecurity in business. Risk management to guarantee cybersecurity.
8. International and EU cybercrime regulations.
9. Future of cybercrime and cybersecurity legislation.

Recommended reading: 
1. Cybercrime and the Darknet: Revealing the hidden underworld of the internet, Cath Senker, Arcturus Publishing. 2016.

Additional reading: 
1. Cybersecurity Law, Standards and Regulations, Tari Schreider, Rothstein Publishing. 2020.