Crime and the Internet

Name: Crime and the Internet
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This groundbreaking text examines for the first time the nature and consequences of crime on the internet; analyzing the new challenges that cybercrimes pose to the criminal justice system. > Is the internet really powerful enough to allow a sixteen year old to become the biggest threat to world peace since Adolf Hitler? Are we all now susceptible to cyber-criminals who can steal from us without even having to leave the comfort of their own armchairs? These are fears which have been articulated since the popular development of the internet, yet criminologists have been slow to respond to them. Consequently, questions about what cybercrimes are, what their impacts will be and how we respond to them remain largely unanswered.Organised into three sections, this book engages with the various criminological debates that are emerging over cybercrime. The first section looks at the general problem of crime and the internet. It then describes what is understood by the term 'cybercrime' bye