Computer Misuse

Zusatztext 'Provides a comprehensive, valuable and timely critical review of the legal and extra-legal governance of computer misuse.' - Professor Martin Wasik CBE, Keele University Informationen zum Autor Stefan Fafinski is Lecturer in Law at Brunel University. Klappentext This book is concerned with the nature of computer misuse and the legal and extra-legal responses to it. It explores what is meant by the term 'computer misuse' and charts its emergence as a problem as well as its expansion in parallel with the continued progression in computing power, networking, reach and accessibility. This book will be of interest to students of IT law as well as to sociologists and criminologists, and those who have a professional concern with preventing computer misuse and fraud. Zusammenfassung Discusses the nature of computer misuse and the legal and non-legal responses to it. This book explores what is meant by the term 'computer misuse' and charts its emergence as a problem as well as its expansion in parallel with the continued progression in computing power, networking, reach and accessibility. It is suitable for students of IT law. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Part 1: Constructing the Problem of Computer Misuse 2. The Emergence of the Problem of Computer Misuse 3. The Evolution of the Problem of Computer Misuse 4. Computer Misuse and the Criminal Law Part 2: The Governance of Computer Misuse 5. The Risk of Computer Misuse and its Governance 6. The Legal Governance of Computer Misuse: Beyond the Domestic Criminal Law 7. The Extra-legal Governance of Computer Misuse Part 3: Examining the Solution 8. The Constellation of Control

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Fafinski, Fafinski Stefan
• Publisher: Willan Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2011
• EAN: 9781843923800
• ISBN: 978-1-84392-380-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, COMPUTERS / Security / General, LAW / Communications, LAW / Computer & Internet, Corporate crime, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Privacy & data protection, Privacy and data protection, IT and Communications law / Postal laws and regulations, IT & Communications law