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Cybercrime is now regarded as a major threat to society, yet common understandings of the change are developing slowly. This book explores the challenges to policing created by the increased professionalism of criminals and (separately) the new forms of deviance brought by social network media.
This book was originally published as a special issue of
Policing and Society.
List of contents
Introduction: Policing cybercrime: networked and social media technologies and the challenges for policing David S. Wall and Matthew L. Williams 1. Reading the riots: what were the police doing on Twitter? Rob Procter, Jeremy Crump, Susanne Karstedt, Alex Voss and Marta Cantijoch 2. Policing identity crimes David S. Wall 3. Policing cyber-neighbourhoods: tension monitoring and social media networks Matthew L. Williams, Adam Edwards, William Housley, Peter Burnap, Omer Rana, Nick Avis, Jeffrey Morgan and Luke Sloan 4. The policing of Internet sex offences: pluralised governance versus hierarchies of standing Majid Yar 5. Policing Internet fraud in Saudi Arabia: expressive gestures or adaptive strategies? Abdullah Faze Algarni 6. Trust among cybercriminals? Carding forums, uncertainty and implications for policing Michael Yip, Craig Webber and Nigel Shadbolt 7. Formal and informal modalities for policing cybercrime across the Taiwan Strait Lennon Y.C. Chang
About the author
David S. Wall researches and teaches cybercrime, identity crime, policing and intellectual property crime (counterfeits) at Durham University, UK. He has published books and articles and on these subjects and he also advises government departments and other bodies on aspects relating to these issues. He has a sustained track record of funded research in these areas for the EU FP6 & FP7, ESRC, EPSRC, AHRC & others.
Matthew L. Williams researches and teaches Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Digital Social Research Methodology and Sexuality and Criminal Justice at Cardiff University, UK. He has published a range of books and articles on these subjects. He has a sustained track record of funding in these areas from the ESRC, EPSRC, EADS and JISC and also advises government departments and other bodies on aspects relating to these issues.
Summary
Cybercrime is now regarded as a major threat to society, yet common understandings of the change are developing slowly. This book explores the challenges to policing created by the increased professionalism of criminals and (separately) the new forms of deviance brought by social network media. This book was originally published as a special issue of Policing and Society.
