ABSTRACT
The latest contribution to our Dialogue and Debate section is stimulated by Wanda Capeller’s bold and wide-ranging attempt to grasp the nature of virtual criminality as a phenomenon of the internet age. Moving from a discussion of emergent characteristics of late modern society to forms of criminal deviance and modes of regulation, Capeller suggests that the internet has to be seen as giving rise to new forms of criminality and new problems of regulation. She suggests that these in turn invoke the need for a new criminological paradigm, one that emphasizes the abstract, systemic nature of criminality in the computer age. Her article is a sophisticated attempt to think about the nature of crime, criminality and its control in the context of a new social medium and changing social times.
