There are three distinct types of computer crime laws:
1. Computer assisted crime - Criminal uses a computer to commit the actual crime or wrongdoing.
2. Computer targeted crime - Crime in which a computer is the actual victim because the criminal intended to cause harm to the computer or the computer's owner.
3. Computer is incidental crime - When a computer happens to be involved in criminal activity.
The main point to take away from this is that computer assisted crimes are crimes in which people use computer to carry out what some would call "regular" crimes such as theft and destruction. Also, computer targeted crimes absolutely cannot take place without a computer, whereas a computer assisted crime could. An example of a computer is incidental crime would be a crime in which a computer does not cause harm to another machine, a computer is not being attacked, but a computer is still used in some way to commit a crime.
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