Dot.cons

List of contents

1. Crime, deviance and the disembodied self: transcending the dangers of corporeality 2. Policing the Net: crime, regulation and surveillance in cyberspace 3. Cyberpunters and cyberwhores: prostitution on the Internet 4. The electronic cloak: secret sexual deviance in cybersociety 5. Cyber-chattels: buying brides and babies on the Net 6. What a tangled web we weave: identity theft and the Internet 7. Cyberstalking: an international perspective 8. Maestros or misogynists? Gender and the social construction of hacking 9. Digital counter-cultures and the nature of electronic social and political movements 10. Investigating cybersociety: a consideration of the ethical and practical issues surrounding online research in chat rooms

About the author

Yvonne Jewkes
is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. She has written extensively on the problems of policing cybercrime as well as more generally about the relationship between new technologies, crime and deviance. Her books include Dot.cons: crime, deviance and identity on the internet (Willan, 2003) and Media and Crime (Sage, 2004). She is also cofounder and Editor of Crime, Media, Culture: an international journal and editor of Handbook on Prisons (Willan, 2007).

Summary

This book crosses the boundaries of sociological, criminological and cultural discourse in order to explore the implications of recent massive transformations in information and communication technologies for the growth of criminal and deviant identities and behaviour on the Internet.

Product details

• Authors: Yvonne Jewkes
• Assisted by: Yvonne Jewkes (Editor), Yvonne (University of Brighton Jewkes (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781843920014
• ISBN: 978-1-84392-001-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 498 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence & general issues, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Jurisprudence and general issues, Internet Guides & Online Services, Internet guides and online services, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Services & APIs