Approaches of the educated people to the crimes of informatic in Turkey

The developments in informatics and communication technologieshave brought in a new style of life and also changed the commonbeliefs in various fields such as from education to trade, from statesector to private sector, from entertainment to shopping. Parallel tothese positive developments, the concept of crime has developed andthe crime of informatics has taken its place among the other types ofcrimes. Informatic crimes are serious crimes and they pose a greatworld-wide threat. Thanks to the internet, these crimes may be realizedin any part of the world and that is why it has spread so muchthroughout the world. For this reason, research about informatic crimesand about the measures to be taken against them should be made. Withthis study, informatic crimes have been analysed from differentaspects.The scope, definition and classification of these crimes havebeen discussed and its legal dimension as well as its detectionabilityhave been focused on. Taking into consideration the fact that theinternet users in Turkey are mostly educated people, university staffand university students, a survey has been made among them.Since this survey is concerned with informatics, it has been made bymeans of a web site and announced through e-mail. With this, theopinions of educated people on the crime of informatics and thestruggle against these crimes were tried to be evaluated.Key Words :Information technologies crimes, computer crimes,digital proofing, cyber terror, internet crimes