Cyber Criminals on Trial

Russell G. Smith, BA (hons), LLM, DipCrim (Melb.), PhD (London), Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Federal Courts of Australia, is Deputy Director of Research at the Australian Institute of Criminology. He is co-author of the books Electronic Theft: Unlawful Acquisition in Cyberspace and Crime in the Digital Age. Peter Grabosky, BA (Colby), MA, PhD (Northwestern), FASSA, is a Professor in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University, a former Deputy Director at the Australian Institute of Criminology, and current Deputy Secretary General of the International Society of Criminology. He is a co-author of Electronic Theft: Unlawful Acquisition in Cyberspace and Crime in the Digital Age, and co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Australian Criminology. Gregor Urbas, BA (Hons), LLB (Hons), PhD (ANU), Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and the Federal Courts of Australia, is a Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University and a former Research Analyst at the Australian Institute of Criminology. With Russell Smith, he is a co-author of Controlling Fraud on the Internet.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Defining and measuring cyber crime; 3. The prosecutor as gatekeeper; 4. Cross-border issues; 5. Strategies of cyber crime litigation; 6. The quest for harmonisation of cyber crime laws; 7. Judicial punishment in cyberspace; 8. Sentencing cyber criminals; 9. Conclusions; Appendixes.

Review of the hardback: '… definitely a reference book giving us a thorough analysis of cyber crime. I am convinced that every prosecutor should read it, whether he or she is directly concerned by the issue or not, since even in cases where cyber crime is not directly involved, some techniques related to it may have been used or may have triggered off the commission of other offences. International Association of Prosecutors