Cybercrime and Cyber Terrorism - A View from the Philosophy of Social Science

This book examines the cyber terrorist offender through social and biological theories. It critiques how traditional criminology theory falls short when applied to cyber-terrorism. Using a four-fold lens, it takes into analytical consideration a cluster of psychological, social, genetic and neurological variables. It uses multiple examples to show how this approach can be applied to selected aspects of cyber terrorism, including definitions of terrorism per se, forms of cyber terrorism, examples of counter terrorism and attempts to combat cyber terrorism, and the possible motivations for cyber terrorism. This Genetic-Social approach seeks to 'build bridges' between the biological and social sciences, providing an ontologically-flexible, more integrationalist conceptualisation of the phenomena of cyber terrorism. It includes a chapter explaining how the post-Covid era has changed the playing field in a way that advantages cyber-terrorists and it also discusses a blueprint for a potential predictive model of cyber terrorism.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Forms of Cyber Terrorism and Some Possible Explanations.- 3. Constructing a Genetic-Social Framework in the Shadow of Covid-19.- 4. Applying Genetic-Social meta-theory to Cyber Terrorism.

About the author

Dr Tim Owen is a leading criminological theorist, social theorist and philosopher with extensive experience in the UK Higher Education sector. He was educated at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of nearly 40 publications, including 8 books, and as an independent scholar, the expansion of his unique, Genetic-Social framework lies at the heart of current and future work.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Owen
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 17.07.2025
• EAN: 9783031878527
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3187852-7
• No. of pages: 318
• Illustrations: X, 318 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik), Soziale und politische Philosophie, Biopsychologie, Physiologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie, Terrorismus, bewaffneter Kampf, cybercrime, Criminology Theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Terrorism and Political Violence, Criminal Behavior, Evolutionary Psychology, behavioural genetics, behavioural psychology, biosocial theory, neuroscience of free-will