Dot.cons

Yvonne Jewkesis Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. She has written extensively on the problems of policing cybercrime as well as more generally about the relationship between new technologies, crime and deviance. Her books include Dot.cons: crime, deviance and identity on the internet (Willan, 2003) and Media and Crime (Sage, 2004). She is also cofounder and Editor of Crime, Media, Culture: an international journal and editor of Handbook on Prisons (Willan, 2007).

• 1. Crime, deviance and the disembodied self: transcending the dangers of corporeality  2. Policing the Net: crime, regulation and surveillance in cyberspace  3. Cyberpunters and cyberwhores: prostitution on the Internet  4. The electronic cloak: secret sexual deviance in cybersociety  5. Cyber-chattels: buying brides and babies on the Net  6. What a tangled web we weave: identity theft and the Internet  7. Cyberstalking: an international perspective  8. Maestros or misogynists? Gender and the social construction of hacking  9. Digital counter-cultures and the nature of electronic social and political movements  10. Investigating cybersociety: a consideration of the ethical and practical issues surrounding online research in chat rooms

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