ABSTRACT

Cybercrime focuses on the growing concern about the use of electronic communication for criminal activities and the appropriateness of the countermeasures that are being adopted by law enforcement agencies, security services and legislators to address such anxieties. Fuelled by sensational media headlines and news coverage which has done much to encourage the belief that technologies like the Internet are likely to lead to a lawless electronic frontier, Cybercrime provides a more considered and balanced perspective on what is an important and contested arena for debate. It looks at:
*legislation
*electronic criminal behaviour
*privacy and liberty
*the dangers of surveillance.
Cybercrime explains the basic issues surrounding cybercrime and its impact on society.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

Cybercrime: law enforcement, security and surveillance in the information age

part I|88 pages

Perceptions of cybercriminals

chapter 2|19 pages

Criminality on the electronic frontier

Corporality and the judicial construction of the hacker

chapter 5|18 pages

The new spectacle of crime

part II|115 pages

Privacy, surveillance and protection

chapter 7|21 pages

Encryption, anonymity and markets

Law enforcement and technology in a free market virtual world

chapter 8|20 pages

Keeping secrets

International developments to protect undisclosed business information and trade secrets

chapter 10|25 pages

Data protection of law offenders

part III|50 pages

Information warfare, critical national infrastructure and security

chapter 11|13 pages

Information warfare and sub-state actors

An organizational approach