Cybercrime - Wall, David S
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How has the internet transformed criminal behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional criminal activity? What new criminal opportunities have arisen? What impact might cybercrime have on public security? In this exciting new text, David Wall carefully examines these and other important issues. He discusses what is known about cybercrime, disentangling the rhetoric of risk assessment from its reality. Looking at the full range of cybercrime, he shows how the increase in personal computing power available within a globalized communications network has affected the…mehr

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How has the internet transformed criminal behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional criminal activity? What new criminal opportunities have arisen? What impact might cybercrime have on public security? In this exciting new text, David Wall carefully examines these and other important issues. He discusses what is known about cybercrime, disentangling the rhetoric of risk assessment from its reality. Looking at the full range of cybercrime, he shows how the increase in personal computing power available within a globalized communications network has affected the nature of and response to criminal activities. Drawing on empirical research findings and multidisciplinary sources he goes on to argue that we are beginning to experience a new generation of automated cybercrimes, which are almost completely mediated by networked technologies that are themselves converging. We have now entered the world of low impact, multiple victim crimes in which bank robbers, for example, no longer have to meticulously plan the theft of millions of dollars. New technological capabilities at their disposal now mean that one person can effectively commit millions of robberies of one dollar each. Against this background, David Wall scrutinizes the regulatory challenges that cybercrime poses for the criminal (and civil) justice processes, at both the national and the international levels. This book offers the most comprehensive, and intellectually robust, account of cybercrime currently available. It is suitable for use on courses across the social sciences, and in computer science, and will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students.
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D.S. Wall, Professor of Criminal Justice, Head of the School of Law and member of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds
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"Will enhance all readers' knowledge and understanding of thiscomplex and fast-moving subject."
Jane's Police Review

"Wall acknowledges in the preface that the task of describingCybercrime is hard as the subject matter changes rapidly.Nevertheless, three years after Wall finished his work it is stillin many ways current ... A well researched, thoughtful andup-to-date examination of the reasons why cybercrime flourishes. Iwarmly recommend the book for any cybercrime class and cybersociety scholar's bookshelf."
International Journal of Emerging Technologies andSociety

"The work of David S. Wall, who for ten years has studied theWeb and the ways to police it, is clear evidence that a book aboutthe Internet could be a thoughtful, complete, and up-to-dateanalysis of cybercrime and the problems that it produces."
Crime, Media, Culture

"Whether new to or familiar with the subject of cybercrime,those interested will enjoy reading this clear, comprehensive andin-depth analysis of how crime and policing are transformed in theinformation age. Indeed, in ten chapters, a glossary and an index,the author offers an excellent panorama of the key issues incybercrime."
Information, Communication and Society

"Wall writes with wry wit ... he has to be congratulated, notonly for putting together a compendium of cybercrime, but also forsuggesting a structured way to understand it. He is an obviousmaster in this new, difficult and developing field ofcriminological enquiry."
Surveillance and Society

"A thoughtful and thought-provoking book which makes importantlinks between the law, policing, social policy and the criminologyof social control."
International Review of Law, Computers andTechnology

"A trenchant examination of [the] shifting landscape of crime... Wall's work makes an important contribution to the study ofcybercrime and raises interesting moral, ethical and legal concernssurrounding the policing of crime in an increasinglynetwork-mediated, globalised world."
Political Studies Review

"His intended audiences are 'advanced undergraduates andgraduate students' and I am sure that for them, and for manyothers, it will rank as a 'must-have' because it is absolutelystuffed with references."
Political Quarterly

"David Wall's Cybercrime is a refreshing look at newforms of crime. Rather than 'decent' desperate nineteenth-centurystreet crime that sends minorities to prison, cybercrime isvirtually new; a risky frontier for the middle classes. These newforms find the police ill suited and untrained for theirinvestigation, businesses ready to exploit them, academics fretting- and few, other than David Wall, writing about them withclarity, honesty and detail. Shut down your computer and have alook at this book."
Peter K. Manning, Northeastern University

"Cybercrime is a rapidly changing landscape, and David Wall'simportant book is a wonderful introduction to the subject.Up-to-date, comprehensive, and readable, it provides an impressiveoverview of the varieties of contemporary cybercrime, and the manyinstitutions in the public, private, and voluntary sectors thatwork toward its prevention and control."
Peter Grabosky, Australian National University

"This stimulating, thoughtful and well written book is an idealreview of the way that electronic communications have changed (andyet in many ways have not changed) the world of crime and itscontrol. It should be read by all who are prepared to move beyondthe usual crimes and the usual suspects."
Michael Levi, Cardiff University…mehr