Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information AgeISBN: 978-0-7456-2736-6
Paperback
288 pages
September 2007, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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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.