This book offers a comprehensive and integrative introduction to cybercrime. It provides an authoritative synthesis of the disparate literature on the various types of cybercrime, the global investigation and detection of cybercrime and the role of digital information, and the wider role of technology as a facilitator for social relationships between deviants and criminals. It includes coverage of:



key theoretical and methodological perspectives; computer hacking and malicious software; digital piracy and intellectual theft; economic crime and online fraud; pornography and online sex crime; cyber-bullying and cyber-stalking; cyber-terrorism and extremism; digital forensic investigation and its legal context around the world; the law enforcement response to cybercrime transnationally; cybercrime policy and legislation across the globe.
The new edition features two new chapters, the first looking at the law enforcement response to cybercrime and the second offering an extended discussion of online child pornography and sexual exploitation.

This book includes lively and engaging features, such as discussion questions, boxed examples of unique events and key figures in offending, quotes from interviews with active offenders, and a full glossary of terms. This new edition includes QR codes throughout to connect directly with relevant websites. It is supplemented by a companion website that includes further exercises for students and instructor resources. This text is essential reading for courses on cybercrime, cyber-deviancy, digital forensics, cybercrime investigation, and the sociology of technology.

本书对网络犯罪进行了全面和综合的介绍。它对有关各种类型的网络犯罪、网络犯罪的全球调查和侦查以及数字信息的作用的不同文献进行了权威性的综合，并对技术作为偏离者和犯罪者之间社会关系的促进因素的更广泛作用进行了介绍。它包括以下内容。

关键的理论和方法论观点；计算机黑客和恶意软件；数字盗版和知识盗窃；经济犯罪和在线欺诈；色情和在线性犯罪；网络欺凌和网络跟踪；网络恐怖主义和极端主义；数字法证调查及其在世界各地的法律背景；对网络犯罪的跨国执法反应；全球的网络犯罪政策和立法。

新版有两个新的章节，第一个章节是对网络犯罪的执法反应，第二个章节是对网上儿童色情制品和性剥削的扩展讨论。

本书包括生动和吸引人的特点，如讨论问题、独特事件和犯罪中的关键人物的盒装例子、对活跃的犯罪者的采访引文以及完整的术语表。这个新版本包括二维码，可直接与相关网站连接。它还得到了一个配套网站的补充，包括为学生提供的进一步练习和教师资源。该文本是网络犯罪、网络诈骗、数字取证、网络犯罪调查和技术社会学课程的必备读物。