ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |11 pages

‘Killed by the Internet'

Cyber homicides, cyber suicides and cyber sex crimes

chapter |17 pages

Cybercrime

Re-thinking crime control strategies

chapter |21 pages

Internet child pornography

International responses

chapter |14 pages

Teenage kicks or virtual villainy?

Internet piracy, moral entrepreneurship, and the social construction of a crime problem

chapter |19 pages

In the back of the net

Football hooliganism and the Internet

chapter |16 pages

Constructing crime

Stalking, celebrity, ‘cyber' and media

chapter |16 pages

Digital undergrounds

Alternative politics and civil society

chapter |18 pages

Beyond ‘the desert of the real'

Crime control in a virtual(ised) reality