Crime online

202 Pages·2006·1.03 MB·English

by  Yvonne Jewkes (editor)

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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 O Crime Online
people around the world while at the same time generating anxieties concerning its
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potential to corrupt vulnerable minds and facilitate heinous crimes.
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This book provides a highly authoritative account and analysis of key issues within i
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the rapidly burgeoning field of cybercrime. Drawing upon a range of internationally
known experts in the field, and representing several different disciplines, Crime e
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
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Yvonne Jewkes is Reader in Criminology at the Open University. She has written y
extensively on the problems of policing cybercrime as well as more generally about
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the relationship between new technologies, crime and deviance. Her books include
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Dot.cons: crime, deviance and identity on the internet (Willan, 2003) and Media and
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Crime (Sage, 2004). She is also Editor of Crime, Media, Culture: an international n
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Carol Andrews, Susan W. Brenner, Rinella Cere, Stefan Fafinski, Emily Finch, Katja e
Franko Aas, Yvonne Jewkes, Robert Moore, Russell G. Smith, Maggie Wykes, Majid w
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Also available from Willan Publishing
Dot.cons: crime, deviance and identity on the internet, edited by Yvonne Jewkes
(ISBN 184392000X)
Edited by
Yvonne Jewkes
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Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
Published in association with the Institute of Criminology, University of
Cambridge
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Crime Online
Edited by
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Contents
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1 ‘Killed by the Internet’: cyber homicides, cyber suicides and
cyber sex crimes 1
Yvonne Jewkes
2 Cybercrime: re-thinking crime control strategies 12
SusanW. Brenner
3 The problem of stolen identity and the Internet 29
Emily Finch
4 Biometric solutions to identity-related cybercrime 44
Russell G. Smith
5 Internet child pornography: international responses 60
Yvonne Jewkes and Carol Andrews
6 The role of computer forensics in criminal investigations 81
Robert Moore
7 Teenage kicks or virtual villainy? Internet piracy, moral
entrepreneurship and the social construction of a crime problem 95
Majid Yar

8 In the back of the net: football hooliganism and the Internet 109
Stefan Fafinski
9 Constructingcrime: stalking, celebrity, ‘cyber’ and media 128
Maggie Wykes
10 Digital undergrounds: alternative politics and civil society 144
Rinella Cere
11 Beyond ‘the desert of the real’: crime control in a virtual(ised)
reality 160
Katja Franko Aas
Index 179
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Notes on contributors
Carol Andrews is Research Assistant at the University of Sheffield
working on a Cyberprofiling project. She has previously worked as an
AnalystwiththeDepartmentofInternalAffairsin NewZealandprofiling
convicted censorship offenders. Her publications include ‘Policing the
Filth: The Problems of Investigating Online Child Pornography in
EnglandandWales’inPolicingandSociety(2005)withYvonneJewkes,and
‘Internet Traders of Child Pornography and Other Censorship Offenders
in New Zealand’ published by DIA in 2004.
Susan W. Brenner is NCR Distinguished Professor of Law and Technol-
ogy at the University of Dayton School of Law. She has spoken at
numerous events, including Interpol’s Fourth and Fifth International
Conferenceson Cybercrimes,theMiddle East IT SecurityConferenceand
the Yale Law SchoolConferenceonCybercrime. Shehas published many
articles and book chapters dealing with cybercrime, such as ‘Cybercrime
Metrics’, University of Virginia Journal of Law and Technology (2004) and
‘Toward a Criminal Law for Cyberspace: Distributed Security’, Boston
University Journal of Science and Technology Law (2004).
Rinella Cere lectures in Media and Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam

University. She is author of articles on Italian media culture, on media
representationsof women,and morerecently on genderand the Internet.
She was one of the contributors to Dot.cons edited by Y. Jewkes (2003,
Willan) with a chapter on ‘Digital Counter-cultures and the Nature of
Electronic and Social Movements’. Recent publications include a chapter
on the Internet and gendered poverty: ‘Bank Online for the Poor: The
Internet, NGOs and Gendered Poverty’, in The Ideology of the Internet:
Concepts, Policies, Uses edited by K. Sarikakis and D. K. Thussu (2006,
Hampton Press).
StefanFafinskiiscurrentlyconductingresearchintothecriminalisationof
computer misuse at the University of Leeds. He is a Chartered Fellow of
the British Computer Societyand a Freeman of the Worshipful Company
of Information Technologists. He recently won the BA 2006 Joseph Lister
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Awardforhislecture‘ComputerSaysNo:theSocialAspectsofComputer
Misuse’. He is the co-author of Identity Theft with Emily Finch (forth-
coming, Willan) as well as a regular contributor to Reading FC’s premier
shoddy fanzine The Whiff.
Emily Finch is a part-time Lecturer in Law at Brunel, Middlesex and the
Open University. She has conducted research into the criminogenic
potential of the Internet and other new technology and has published
widely on this topic, including a chapter – ‘What a Tangled Web We
Weave: Identity Theft and the Internet’ – in Dot.cons edited by Y. Jewkes
(2003, Willan). Her work on identity theft was the subject of the Joseph
Lister Award Lecture at the British Association Festival of Science in
Dublin in 2005 and she is the co-author of Identity Theft with Stefan
Fafinski (forthcoming, Willan)
KatjaFrankoAasisSeniorResearcherattheInstituteofCriminologyand
Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. She has written extensively on the
use of information and communication technologies in contemporary
penal systems, including Sentencingin the Age of Information: from Faust to
Macintosh (2005, Cavendish/Glasshouse Press). She is currently working
on a project on ICTs and border controls and completing a book entitled
Globalization and Crime (forthcoming,Sage).
YvonneJewkesisReaderinCriminologyattheOpenUniversity.Shehas
published several articles and chapters on the problems of policing
cybercrime,aswellasmoregenerallyabouttherelationshipbetweennew
technologies, crime and deviance. Her books include Dot.cons: Crime,
Deviance and Identity on the Internet (2003, Willan) and Media and Crime
(2004, Sage). She is also Editor of Crime, Media, Culture: An International
Journal.

RobertMooreisaninstructorofCriminalJusticeatDeltaStateUniversity
in Cleveland, Mississippi, USA. He has published several articles and
chapters dealing with the interaction between crime and technology. His
books include Cybercrime: Investigating High-Technology Computer Crime
(2006, Anderson) and Search and Seizure of Digital Evidence (2005, LFB
Scholarly).Heisalsoacertifiedlawenforcementofficerwhoassistsinthe
investigationof computer-assisted crime.
Russell G. Smith is Principal Criminologist at the Australian Institute of
Criminology where he heads the Global, Economic and Electronic Crime
Program. He has carried out research and published extensively on
aspectsofcomputercrime,fraudcontrol,andprofessionalregulation.His
latest book Cyber Criminals on Trial (2004, Cambridge University Press),
jointlyauthoredwithPeterGraboskyandGregorUrbas,wasawardedthe
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Distinguished Book Award of the American Society of Criminology’s
Division of International Criminologyin 2005.
Maggie Wykes is Senior Lecturer in the Law School, University of
Sheffield. She teaches in the areas of criminological theory, gender and
Internet crime and her research focuses on issues of representation,
identity, criminalisation and power. Her book publications include News,
Crime and Culture (2001, Pluto Press) and, with Barry Gunter, The Media
and the Body (2005, Sage).
Majid Yar is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Keele University. He has
published a number of journal articles dealing with cybercrime issues
suchascomputerhackingandmediapiracy,aswellasbroadertheoretical
issues around online offending. He is the author of Cybercrimeand Society
(2006, Sage).

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