
- 198 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Crime Online
About this book
Crime Online is concerned to explore the dual capacity of the Internet to pervert and to democratize: it offers its users freedom, democracy, and communication with people around the world while at the same time generating anxieties concerning its potential to corrupt vulnerable minds and facilitate heinous crimes.
This book provides a highly authoritative account and analysis of key issues within the rapidly burgeoning field of cybercrime. Drawing upon a range of internationally known experts in the field, and representing several different disciplines, Crime Online focuses on different constructions and manifestations of cybercrime and diverse responses to its regulation. It will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in one of the most exciting and fast moving areas of crime, policing and legislation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. ‘Killed by the Internet’: Cyber homicides, cyber suicides and cyber sex crimes
- 2. Cybercrime: Re-thinking crime control strategies
- 3. The problem of stolen identity and the Internet
- 4. Biometric solutions to identity-related cybercrime
- 5. Internet child pornography: International responses
- 6. The role of computer forensics in criminal investigations
- 7. Teenage kicks or virtual villainy?: Internet piracy, moral entrepreneurship, and the social construction of a crime problem
- 8. In the back of the net: Football hooliganism and the Internet
- 9. Constructing crime: Stalking, celebrity, ‘cyber’ and media
- 10. Digital undergrounds: Alternative politics and civil society
- 11. Beyond ‘the desert of the real’: Crime control in a virtual(ised) reality
- Index