Cybercrime

Douglas Thomas is Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Brian D. Loader is Co-Director of CIRA, University of Teesside, and editor of the international journal Information, communication and Society.

Preface 1 Introduction – cybercrime: law enforcement, security and surveillance in the information age PART I Perceptions of cybercriminals: hackers, insurgents and extremist groups 2 Criminality on the electronic frontier: corporality and the judicial construction of the hacker 3 Hackers – cyberpunks or microserfs? 4 Attitudes towards computer hacking in Russia 5 The new spectacle of crime PART II Privacy, surveillance and protection 6 Hiding crimes in cyberspace 7 Encryption, anonymity and markets: law enforcement and technology in a free market virtual world 8 Keeping secrets: international developments to protect undisclosed business information and trade secrets 9 Privacy and security at risk in the global information society 10 Data protection of law offenders PART III Information warfare, critical national infrastructure and security 11 Information warfare and sub-state actors: an organizational approach 12 Far right extremists on the Internet 13 Information warfare and the future of the spy