It seems to me that from every 10 computer crimes being prosecuted, 9 of them are child pornography related(in UK at least).
That’s quite strange. I always thought that things like credit card fraud were much more common. Here are some of my theories:
Child pornography is more widespread than I think.
Child pornographers leave more traces and are easier to catch.
Catching child pornographers makes the police look good(=give us more taxpayer money).
Is any of the above correct?
Easier to catch – if you find child porn on the computer, you’ve got an arrest. In addition, there are ways to troll for one online, and a lot of them are pretty stupid and give away information that let the police get a warrant.
For a hacker, you need to work harder. They’re harder to track down, and it’s harder to prove what happens.
In addition, with the current climate, catching someone with child porn gets good press and a lot of attention. There’s much less attention for catching someone committing fraud. It’s possible that there are as many arrests, but the just don’t get the press coverage.
I would guess that ALL of them are.
I (think) that there are several Police divisions worldwide, that deliberately place child porn sites up just to see who constantly logs onto them. Some people may be out wildly surfing the web and aciddentally hit one of these sites and will immediately jump back off again. These people I don’t believe the police are interested in. I think the ones the police and strongly interested in are the ones that repeatedly log onto these sites, then stay for several minutes, just long enough to download photographs. I also believe that each one of these sites leave calling cards or “cookies” that allow law enforcement to track down their e-mail adress, IP number, Name, Address and any other personal information that they need to make an arrest if necessary… Hope this helps 
*** Please Note that I am not a Law Enforcement Officer and the above statements were made based only on my own personal educated guesses, not any actual facts that I am aware of***Are your figures based on actual statistics, or just a guess based on what you read/hear about? Because I would strongly suspect that child porn cases get a lot of coverage in the medias, while credit card fraud is unlikely to be even mentionned.
So, I would somehow suspect that there are actually much more cases of various “computer crimes” than of child porn, but that we just don’t hear about them.