Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cybercrimes and the Internet / David Wall -- Crime futures and foresight: challenging criminal behaviour in the information age / Ken Pease -- Telecommunication fraud in the digital age: the convergence of technologies / Peter Grabosky, Russell Smith -- "Between the risk and the reality falls the shadow": evidence and urban legends in computer fraud / Michael Levi -- Hacktivism: in search of lost ethics? / Paul Taylor -- Last of the rainmacs? Thinking about pornography in cyberspace / Bela Bonita Chatterjee -- Criminalizing online speech to "protect" the young: what are the benefits and costs? / Marjorie Heins -- Controlling illegal and harmful content on the Internet / Yaman Akdeniz -- Cyberstalking: tackling harassment on the Internet / Louise Ellison -- The language of cybercrime / Matthew Williams -- Maintaining order and law on the Internet / David Wall -- Policing "hi-tech" crime within the global context: the role of transnational policy networks / Paul Norman -- The criminal courts online / Clive Walker.

Is the Internet Really Powerful Enough to Enable A Sixteen-Year-Old Boy to Become the Biggest Threat to World Peace Since Adolf Hitler? Are We All Now Susceptible to Cybercriminals Who Can Steal From Us Without Ever Having to Leave the Comfort of Their Own Armchairs? These Are Fears Which Have Been Articulated Since the Popular Development of the Internet, Yet Criminologists Have Been Slow to Respond to Them. Consequently, Questions About What Cybercrimes Are, What Their Impacts Will be And How We Respond to Them Remain Largely Unanswered. Organised Into Three Sections, This Book Engages With the Various Criminological Debates That Are Emerging Over Cybercrime. The First Section Looks at the General Problem of Crime and the Internet; it Then Describes What is Currently Understood By the Term 'Cybercrime', Before Identifying Some of the Challenges That Are Presented for Criminology. The Second Section Explores the Different Types of Cybercrime and Their Attendant Problems. The Final Section Contemplates Some of the Challenges That Cybercrimes Give Rise to for the Criminal Justice System.