Dot.cons

ISBN-13: 9781843920007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 208 str.

Opis

Computer technologies in general and the Internet in particular have had a massive impact on the type and scope of offences being committed, and on the organization of the policing and detection of criminal and deviant behaviour. Yet the complexities of these new developments and their wider social impact are little understood. This book has the aim of shedding light on the nature of the relationship between crime, deviance and the Internet. The book: encompasses both criminological and sociological approaches in understanding cyber deviance as well as cyber-crime; explores the potential of the Internet to construct identities, in particular criminal identities; makes an important contribution to the debate on this rapidly expanding area and at the same time is ideal as a teaching text for courses on the Internet and society; and includes chapters on different types of criminal and/or deviant behaviour and its relation to the Net.

Spis treści

1. Crime, deviance and the disembodied self: transcending the dangers of corporeality, Yvonne Jewkes and Keith Sharp  2. Policing the Net: crime, regulation and surveillance in cyberspace, Yvonne Jewkes  3. Cyberpunters and cyberwhores: prostitution on the Internet, Keith Sharp and Sarah Earle  4. The electronic cloak: secret sexual deviance in cybersociety, Heather DiMarco  5. Cyber-chattels: buying brides and babies on the Net, Gayle Letherby and Jen Marchbank  6. What a tangled web we weave: identity theft and the Internet, Emily Finch  7. Cyberstalking: an international perspective, Janice Joseph  8. Maestros or misogynists? Gender and the social construction of hacking, Paul A. Taylor  9. Digital counter-cultures and the nature of electronic social and political movements, Rinella Cere  10. Investigating cybersociety: a consideration of the ethical and practical issues surrounding online research in chat rooms, Andrew D. DiMarco and Heather DiMarco