Cybercrime in the Pandemic Digital Age and Beyond

Russell G Smith is Professor in the College of Business, Government and Law at Flinders University, South Australia. Rick Sarre is Emeritus Professor and Adjunct in Justice and Society at the University of South Australia. Lennon Yao-Chung Chang is Associate Professor in Cyber Risk and Policy at Deakin University, Australia.  Laurie Lau is Chairman at the Asia Pacific Association of Technology and Society, Hong Kong.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Crime in the post-pandemic digital age.- Chapter 2: Pandemics and illegal manipulation of digital technologies: Examining cause and effect in a time of COVID-19.- Chapter 3: Pandemics and fraud: Learning from the coronavirus pandemic and its antecedents.- Chapter 4: The human element of online consumer scams arising from the coronavirus pandemic.- Chapter 5: State-sponsored economic espionage in cyberspace: Risks and preparedness during and after the pandemic.- Chapter 6: Virtual kidnapping: Online scams with ‘Asian characteristics’ during the pandemic.- Chapter 7: Lessons in a time of pestilence. The relevance of international cybercrime conventions to controlling post-pandemic cybercrime.- Chapter 8: Domestic laws governing post-pandemic crime and criminal justice.- Chapter 9: Perspectives on policing post-pandemic cybercrime.- Chapter 10: Digital criminal courts: The place or space of (post-)pandemic justice.- Chapter 11: Online messaging as a cybercrimeprevention tool in the post-pandemic age.- Chapter 12: Artificial intelligence, COVID-19, and crime: Charting the origins and expansion of dystopian and utopian narratives.- Chapter 13: Conclusions: Minimising crime risks in pandemics of the future.