This exciting and timely collection showcases recent work on Cybercrime by members of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU], directed by Dr Tim Owen at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. This book offers up-to-date perspectives on Cybercrime based upon a Realist social ontology, alongside suggestions for how research into Cybercrime might move beyond what can be seen as the main theoretical obstacles facing criminological theory: the stagnation of critical criminology and the nihilistic relativism of the postmodern and post-structuralist cultural turn.
Organised into three sections; 'Law and Order in Cyberspace', 'Gender and Deviance in Cyberspace', and 'Identity and Cyberspace', this cutting-edge volume explores some of the most crucial issues we face today on the internet: grooming, gendered violence, freedom of speech and intellectual property crime. Providing unique new theory on Cybercrime, this book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of Criminology, Law, Sociology, Philosophy, Policing and Forensic Science, Information Technology and Journalism, in addition to professionals working within law and order agencies and the security services.

Provides an appraisal of the current state of play in cybercrime research Offers new directions and conceptual paradigms for further research Provokes debate about how cybercrime should be dealt with in social policy

Autorentext

Dr Tim Owen is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and the Director of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU].
Wayne Noble is a lecturer in criminology and digital publishing at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
Faye Christabel Speed is an Associate Lecturer of Criminology at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and a Research Fellow of UCLan Cybercrime Research Unit.

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Part 1. Law and Order in Cyberspace.- Chapter 1. Neuro-Agency, Neuro-Ethics and Cybercrime.- Chapter 2. Biology and Cybercrime.- Chapter 3. Cyber Vigilantism: How the Cyber Mob Behaves.- Chapter 4. Cyber Armies: The Growth of the Cyber Defence Industry.- Part 2. Gender and Deviance in Cyberspace.- Chapter 5. Cyber Grooming.- Chapter 6. Trolling: the Ugly Face of the Social Network.- Chapter 7. Virtual Violence: Cyberspace, Misogyny and Online Abuse.- Chapter 8. Silenced by Free Speech.- Part 3. Identity and Cyberspace.- Chapter 9. The Problem of 'Virtual Criminology'.- Chapter 10.