Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Part I Developments in Thinking About Cybercrimes: The novelty of 'cybercrime': an assessment in light of routine activity theory, Majid Yar; The criminology of hybrids: rethinking crime and law in technosocial networks, Sheila Brown. Part II Changes in the Organization of Crime Online: Organized cybercrime? How cyberspace may affect the structure of criminal relationships, Susan W. Brenner; Digital realism and the governance of spam as cybercrime, David S. Wall; Can the law can spam? Legislation is a blunt instrument with which to beat junk email, Sandy Starr; Can technology can spam? IT companies do battle with bulk email, Sandy Starr; Viruses, worms and Trojan horses: serious crimes, nuisance, or both?, Lorine A. Hughes and Gregory J. DeLone; Policing diversity in the digital age: maintaining order in virtual communities, David S. Wall and Matthew Williams. Part III The Changing Nature of Cybercrime: Computer Integrity Crime: Hackers and the contested ontology of cyberspace, Helen Nissenbaum; The internet in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack, Briavel Holcombe, Philip B. Bakelaar and Mark Zizzamia; Computer Assisted Crime: Cross-national investigation and prosecution of intellectual property crimes: the operation of 'Operation Buccaneer', Gregor Urbas; Identity theft, identity fraud and /or identity-related crime. Definitions matter, Bert-Jaap Koops and Ronald Leenes; Computer Content Crime: International police operations against online child pornography, Tony Krone; Fetishising images, Barbara Hewson; Now you see it, now you don’t: digital images and the meaning of 'possession', Jonathan Clough; Cyberstalking and cyberpredators: a threat to safe sexuality on the internet, Francesca Philips and Gabrielle Morrissey; The social construction of digital danger: debating, defusing and inflating the moral dangers of online humor and pornography in the Netherlands and the United States, Giselinde Kuipers; Hiding in plain sight: an

About the Author

David S. Wall is the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the Department of Law at the University of Leeds, UK. Majid Yar, Sheila Brown, Susan W. Brenner, David S. Wall, Sandy Starr, Lorine A. Hughe, Gregory J. DeLone, Matthew Williams, Helen Nissenbaum, Briavel Holcombe, Philip B. Bakelaar, Mark Zizzamia, Gregor Urbas, Bert-Jaap Koops, Ronald Leenes, Tony Krone, Barbara Hewson, Jonathan Clough, Francesca Philips, Gabrielle Morrissey, Giselinde Kuipers, Jacqueline L. Schneider, Jerry Finn, Neal Kumar Katyal, Bruce Berkowitz, Robert W. Hahn, F. Gregory Lastowka, Dan Hunter, Ronald V. Clarke, Sam McQuade, G.T. Marx, Kevin D. Haggerty Amber Gazso, Yvonne Jewkes, Carol Andrews, Roderic Broadhurst, Peter Sommer, Peter Grabosky, Benoit Dupont,.