Cybercrime: Law enforcement, security and surveillance in the information age / Edition 1

by Brian D. Loader, Douglas Thomas

Overview

Cybercrime focuses on the growing concern about the use of electronic communication for criminal activities and the appropriateness of the countermeasures that are being adopted by law enforcement agencies, security services and legislators to address such anxieties. Fuelled by sensational media headlines and news coverage which has done much to encourage the belief that technologies like the Internet are likely to lead to a lawless electronic frontier, Cybercrime provides a more considered and balanced perspective on what is an important and contested arena for debate. It looks at:
*legislation
*electronic criminal behaviour
*privacy and liberty
*the dangers of surveillance.
Cybercrime explains the basic issues surrounding cybercrime and its impact on society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415213257
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/13/2000
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Douglas Thomas is Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Brian D. Loader is Co-Director of CIRA, University of Teesside, and editor of the international journal Information, communication and Society.

Table of Contents

Preface 1 Introduction – cybercrime: law enforcement, security and surveillance in the information age PART I Perceptions of cybercriminals: hackers, insurgents and extremist groups 2 Criminality on the electronic frontier: corporality and the judicial construction of the hacker 3 Hackers – cyberpunks or microserfs? 4 Attitudes towards computer hacking in Russia 5 The new spectacle of crime PART II Privacy, surveillance and protection 6 Hiding crimes in cyberspace 7 Encryption, anonymity and markets: law enforcement and technology in a free market virtual world 8 Keeping secrets: international developments to protect undisclosed business information and trade secrets 9 Privacy and security at risk in the global information society 10 Data protection of law offenders PART III Information warfare, critical national infrastructure and security 11 Information warfare and sub-state actors: an organizational approach 12 Far right extremists on the Internet 13 Information warfare and the future of the spy