Overview
Cyberspace Crime is a collection of key texts that have contributed towards, or have reflected, the various debates that have taken place over crime and the internet during that past decade. The texts are organised into three parts. The first contains a number of viewpoints and perspectives that facilitate our broader understanding of cyberspace crime/ cybercrimes. The second part addresses each of the major types of cybercrime - trespass/ hacking/cracking, thefts/ deceptions, obscenities/ pornography, violence - and illustrate their associated problems of definition and resolution. The third and final part contains a selection of texts that each deal with the impact of cyberspace crime upon specific criminal justice processes: the police and the trial process.Contents: Theoretical Perspectives and Viewpoints: David S. Wall (1999) Cybercrimes: New Wine, No Bottles?
P.N. Grabosky and Russell G. Smith (2001) Digital Crime in the Twenty-First Century
Alan Norrie (2001) Dialogue and Debate: The Nature of Virtual Criminality
Wanda Capeller (2001) Not Such a Neat Net: Some Comments on Virtual Criminality
Peter N. Grabosky (2001) Virtual Criminality: Old Wine in New Bottles?
Francis Snyder (2001) Sites of Criminality and Sites of Governance
Graham Greenleaf (1998) An Endnote on Regulating Cyberspace: Architecture vs Law? Cybercrimes: Amanda Chandler (1996) The Changing Definition and Image of Hackers in Popular Discourse
Liz Duff and Simon Gardiner (1996) Computer Crime in the Global Village: Strategies for Control and Regulation - in Defence of the Hacker
Tim Jordan and Paul Taylor (1998) A Sociology of Hackers
David Mann and Mike Sutton (1998) Netcrime: More Change in the Organization of Thieving
Dorothy E. Denning (2000) Cyberterrorism: The Logic Bomb versus the Truck Bomb
David L. Speer (2000) Redefining Borders: The Challenges of Cybercrime
George Smith (1998) An Electronic Pearl Harbor? Not Likely
Hedieh Nasheri and Timothy O'Hearn (1999) The Worldwide Search for Techno-Thieves: International Competition v. International Co-operation
C. David Freedman (1999) The Extension of the Criminal Law to Protecting Confidential Commercial Information: Comments on the Issues and the Cyber-Context
Louise Ellison and Yaman Akdeniz (1998) Cyberstalking: The Regulation of Harassment on the Internet'
Matthew Williams (2000) Virtually Criminal: Discourse, Deviance and Anxiety within Virtual Communities
Nadine Strossen (2000) Cybercrimes vs. Cyberliberties
Clive Walker and Yaman Akdeniz (1998) The Governance of the Internet in Europe with Special Reference to Illegal and Harmful Content
Marty Rimm (1995) Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway: A Survey of 917,410 Images, Descriptions, Short Stories, and Animations Downloaded 8.5 Million Times by Consumers in Over 2000 Cities in Forty Countries, Provinces, and Territories
Catharine A. MacKinnon (1995) Vindication and Resistance: A Response to the Carnegie Mellon Study of Pornography in Cyberspace
Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak (1995) A Detailed Analysis of the Conceptual, Logical, and Methodological Flaws in the Article: 'Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway'
Jon Spencer (1999) Crime on the Internet: Its Presentation and Representation. Criminal Justice Processes: Marc D. Goodman (1997) Why the Police Don't Care about Computer Crime
David S. Wall (1998) Policing and the Regulation of the Internet P.K. Manning (2001) Technology's Ways: Information Technology, Crime Analysis and the Rationalizing of Policing
Janet B.L. Chan (2001) The Technological Game: How Information Technology is Transforming Police Practice
Peter Sommer (1998) Digital Footprints: Assessing Computer Evidence
Clive Walker (1996) Fundamental Rights, Fair Trials and the New Audio-Visual Sector
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"This book offers a more than useful collection of key texts for those, who want to get beyond the too often superficial media coverage of "cybercrimes" and are eager to develop a more informed and deeper understanding of the risky landscapes of the Internet. David Wall, himself an internationally acknowledged scholar of this topic, provides a well balanced spectrum of texts, covering the most important aspects of deviance and governance in the virtual society. This compilation serves as well as an excellent starting ground for students as well as a handy reference for the legal or criminological specialist." Dr. Detlef Nogala, Max-Planck-Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany
About the Author:
: About the Editor: David S. Wall, Dr, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, UK
Synopsis
This collection comprises 30 facsimiles of essays previously published in books and journals from 1995 to April 2002, dealing with crime in "cyberspace" (mostly on the Internet). The material is drawn from a wide variety of disciplines: sociology, criminology, law, and ethics. Much of this crime is not new, but cyber-technology makes, for example, hatching conspiracies easier and provides a much larger venue for perpetrating fraud. The first section (of three) deals with theoretical issues on the nature of cybercrime and its classification. The second part contains discussion of specific cybercrimes: trespass, theft/deception, obscenity, and violence (e.g. stalking). The third part addresses the response and adaptation required by the criminal justice system. Some of the interesting issues discussed include the tendency to over regulate—at the cost of stifling innovation and free expression; the lack of response by police to cybercrime; and the idea that cybercrime just might be less dramatic than anticipated. The volume does not contain a subject index. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR