The fusion between virtuality and reality has created a new quality of experience establishing metaverses and virtual worlds. Second Life, Twinity, Entropia Universe or Fregger have experienced rapid growth in recent years and show no signs of slowing down. Not only have countless companies discovered these "virtureal worlds" as marketplaces, but so have fraudsters and other criminals. In this book, European experts from different academic disciplines show how to meet the new challenges arising from virtual worlds. They discuss the reasons for and the impacts of these new forms of criminality...

Auf dem Wissenschaftsmarkt gibt es eine Vielzahl verschiedener Krirninalitatstheo rien. Aber keine Kriminalitatstheorie beantwortet die Fragen nach den Ursachen kriminellen Handelns, nach den Bedingungen von Kriminalisierungen, nach den Determinanten krimineller Karrieren und Kriminalisierungsprozessen, nach der Erklarung unterschiedlicher Kriminalitatsraten und ihrer Veranderung umfassend und berucksichtigt zudem die Verknupfung mit Strafzwecktheorien. In der vorliegenden Studie wird durch einen Ruckgriff auf allgemeine soziologische Theorien eine all gemeine Kriminalitatstheorie konzipiert,...

The fusion between virtuality and reality has created a new quality of experience establishing metaverses and virtual worlds. Second Life, Twinity, Entropia Universe or Fregger have experienced rapid growth in recent years and show no signs of slowing down. Not only have countless companies discovered these virtureal worlds as marketplaces, but so have fraudsters and other criminals. In this book, European experts from different academic disciplines show how to meet the new challenges arising from virtual worlds. They discuss the reasons for and the impacts of these new forms of criminality...