Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information AgeISBN: 978-0-7456-2735-9
Hardcover
288 pages
September 2007, Polity
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Jane's Police Review
"Wall acknowledges in the preface that the task of describing
Cybercrime is hard as the subject matter changes rapidly.
Nevertheless, three years after Wall finished his work it is still
in many ways current ... A well researched, thoughtful and
up-to-date examination of the reasons why cybercrime flourishes. I
warmly recommend the book for any cybercrime class and cyber
society scholar's bookshelf."
International Journal of Emerging Technologies and
Society
"The work of David S. Wall, who for ten years has studied the
Web and the ways to police it, is clear evidence that a book about
the Internet could be a thoughtful, complete, and up-to-date
analysis 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 and
in-depth analysis of how crime and policing are transformed in the
information age. Indeed, in ten chapters, a glossary and an index,
the author offers an excellent panorama of the key issues in
cybercrime."
Information, Communication and Society
"Wall writes with wry wit ... he has to be congratulated, not
only for putting together a compendium of cybercrime, but also for
suggesting a structured way to understand it. He is an obvious
master in this new, difficult and developing field of
criminological enquiry."
Surveillance and Society
"A thoughtful and thought-provoking book which makes important
links between the law, policing, social policy and the criminology
of social control."
International Review of Law, Computers and
Technology
"A trenchant examination of [the] shifting landscape of crime
... Wall's work makes an important contribution to the study of
cybercrime and raises interesting moral, ethical and legal concerns
surrounding the policing of crime in an increasingly
network-mediated, globalised world."
Political Studies Review
"His intended audiences are 'advanced undergraduates and
graduate students' and I am sure that for them, and for many
others, it will rank as a 'must-have' because it is absolutely
stuffed with references."
Political Quarterly
"David Wall's Cybercrime is a refreshing look at new
forms of crime. Rather than 'decent' desperate nineteenth-century
street crime that sends minorities to prison, cybercrime is
virtually new; a risky frontier for the middle classes. These new
forms find the police ill suited and untrained for their
investigation, businesses ready to exploit them, academics fretting
– and few, other than David Wall, writing about them with
clarity, honesty and detail. Shut down your computer and have a
look at this book."
Peter K. Manning, Northeastern University
"Cybercrime is a rapidly changing landscape, and David Wall's
important book is a wonderful introduction to the subject.
Up-to-date, comprehensive, and readable, it provides an impressive
overview of the varieties of contemporary cybercrime, and the many
institutions in the public, private, and voluntary sectors that
work toward its prevention and control."
Peter Grabosky, Australian National University
"This stimulating, thoughtful and well written book is an ideal
review of the way that electronic communications have changed (and
yet in many ways have not changed) the world of crime and its
control. It should be read by all who are prepared to move beyond
the usual crimes and the usual suspects."
Michael Levi, Cardiff University