NCJ Number
212792
Date Published
2006
Length
512 pages
Annotation
This book provides an overview of cybercrime and its legal, social, and technical issues, focuses on the challenges having to do with emergence, prevention, and control of high-tech crime, and takes a multidisciplinary perspective by tying together various disciplines.
Abstract
Written for college students majoring in the fields of criminology and criminal justice and computer science, software engineering, or information technology administration, this book is recognized as a general introductory text on the important subject of what has become known as cybercrime, taking a broad inter and multidisciplinary approach to the most perplexing crime and security topic of the modern age. The book is organized into three parts. Part 1 addresses technologically evolving social deviance, dimensions of attack versus information and infrastructure security, and computer abuse and information technology (IT)--enabled crime. Part 2 is devoted to understanding and categorizing cyber-criminals, explaining how their behaviors relate to major criminological theories, and to discussing empirical research pertaining to the social forms. In part 3, emphasis shifts from understanding to managing cybercrime topics including cyber-related laws and regulations, investigation and prosecution of cybercrime, information security practices, and governmental approaches to preventing cybercrime and protecting critical information infrastructure. The book concludes with useful discourse of computer ethics issues. Each chapter includes a list of key terms and concepts and a set of critical thinking and discussion questions. Tables, figures, cyber-cases, references, and index