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Cybercrime Gamification

Cybercrime is any criminal activity in which computer technology is the tool or the target of the crime. Gamification is the process of applying elements of gameplay to other aspects of life. The Cybercrime Gamification Project (CGP) teaches learners how individuals and businesses can protect themselves from cybercrime through gamifying educational content.

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Why Gamification?

One aspect of studying cybercrime is learning types of cybercrimes, how they are committed, and the criminological theories that explain them.

However, protecting individuals and businesses from cybercrime requires evidence-based and theoretically sound decision-making. It requires an ability to identify different types of cybercrime and make decisions based on this identification. Moreover, decisions made at one time, impact the decisions made at a future date. Video games can approximate this environment more than a traditional lecture format.

Who We Are

Dr. Roderick Graham

Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University

Medina Williams

Certified Fraud Examiner, Doctoral Student at Purdue University

News and Notes

  • Using games to learn how to classify and secure data
    The Cybercrime Gamification Project’s (CGP) first game will teach cybercriminology students how to classify data in an organization and to choose the most efficient method for securing that data. Classifying and securing data is a common practice in cybersecurity and is essential for protecting an organization from various forms of white-collar crime (cyberfraud). There areContinue reading “Using games to learn how to classify and secure data”
  • A New Project
    The Cybercrime Gamification Project (CGP) began in 2022 through a grant from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The purpose of the CGP project is two fold. One purpose is to test instructional materials that teach students in cybercrime concepts. A second purpose is to act as a resource for educators who want to “gamify”Continue reading “A New Project”

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