Handbook of Internet Crime

Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. Her research interests include the ethics of life sentencing, the impact of architecture and design on the lives of prisoners, and the role of computer mediated technologies on the everyday lives of prisoners. She is also Founding Editor of Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. Majid Yar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull. His research interests include the internet and new media, with particular relation to issues of crime, deviance and regulation.

• 1. Introduction: The Internet, Cybercrime, and the Challenges of the 21st Century Part 1: Histories and Contexts Introduction 2. Reinterpreting Internet History 3. On the Globalization of Crime: The Internet and New Criminality 4. The Internet and Everyday Life 5. Criminalising Cyberspace: The Rise of the Internet as a 'Crime Problem' 6. Public Perceptions and Public Opinion about Internet Crime 7. Crime, Film and the Cybernetic Imagination 8. Fiction, Fantasy and Transformation in the Imaginaries of Cybercrime: The Novel and After Part 2: Forms of Internet Crime Introduction 9. Hackers, Viruses and Malicious Software 10. Terror's Web: How the Internet is Transfroming Terrorism 11. Cyber-terror: Construction, Criminalisation and Control 12. Cyber-protest and Civil Society: The Internet and Action Repetoires in Social Movements 13. Intellectual Property Crime and the Internet: Cyber-piracy and 'Stealing' Informational Intangibles 14. Identity Theft and Fraud 15. The Sex Industry, Regualtion and the Internet 16. Online Sexual Exploitation of Children and Young People 17. Child Pornography 18. Harm, Suicide and Homicide in Cyberspace: Assessing Causality and Control Part 3: Internet Law and Regulation Introduction 19. The Emergence of Computer Law 20. Recent Developments in UK Cybercrime Law 21. Recent Developments in US Internet Law 22. Trans-national Developments in Internet Law 23. Online Surveillance and Personal Liberty Part 4: Policing the Internet Introduction 24. Public Policing and Internet Crime 25. The Private Policing of Internet Crime 26. The Virtual Neighbourhood Watch: Netizens in Action 27. Internet Technologies and Criminal Justice 28. Computer Forensics and the Presentation of Evidence in Criminal Cases

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