NCJ Number
230814
Editor(s)
Yvonne Jewkes,
Majid Yar
Date Published
2010
Length
672 pages
Annotation
This book explores the key issues and debates surrounding Internet-related crime, reflecting the global nature of cybercrime problems, and provides an essential reference for students, researchers, and others whose work brings them into contact with managing, policing, and regulating online behavior.
Abstract
Along with the optimism and idealism brought about by the emergence of the Internet, a darker prognosis has materialized, with the Internet serving as a locus and leader for many and varied problems, dangers, risk, and threats. This handbook brings together some of the leading experts in the field to explore some of the most challenging debates facing criminologists and other scholars interested in cybercrime, deviance, policing, law, and regulation in the 21st century. The handbook is divided into four parts, each of which is distinctive in its focus, yet interrelated in the themes and issues raised. Part one considers the 'histories and contexts' of Internet-related offending. Part two of the handbook looks at different types of Internet crime, assessing the extent of the threat they pose and attempting to weigh up actual risk against perceived public anxieties. Part three reflects on some of the themes and debates that have dominated legal responses to cybercrime. Part four turns the attention to policing, investigation, regulation, and justice. The handbook offers scholarly insight and empirically informed discussion about a vast range of offending behaviors and responses. Figures, notes, references, glossary and index