Essentials in cybercrime

Dr. Wytske van der Wagen works as an assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the criminology department. In 2018 she obtained her PhD from the University of Groningen with her thesis entitled: From cybercrime to cyborg crime: An exploration of cybercrime, offenders and victims through the lens of actor-network theory. She has been involved in cybercrime education since 2011. Her expertise lies mainly in cyber offending/offenders, (cyber)criminological theories and the human-technology nexus. Prof. dr. Jan-Jaap Oerlemans is an endowed professor of intelligence and law at Utrecht University. In 2017, he obtained his PhD degree for his dissertation Investigating Cybercrime at Leiden University. He has been publishing about cybercrime and digital investigations for over 10 years. In his current research he also focusses on national security law. Prof. Oerlemans is an editor for the Dutch journal Computerrecht (Computer law) and a member of the Cybercrime expert group for the Court of Appeals in The Hague. Dr. Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg is assistant professor in criminology at the School of Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. In 2018 she completed her dissertation research entitled: Cyber-offenders versus traditional offenders: an empirical comparison at the NSCR (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement). Her current research focuses mainly on three themes within cybercrime: 1. differences with traditional crime 2. the role of online and offline peers and 3. ethical hacking and positive use of ICT skills. She has been involved in bachelor and master education about cybercrime since 2014.

1 Introduction; 2 Cybercrime in a criminological perspective; 3 Types of cybercrime and their criminalisation; 4 Cyber offenders; 5 The organisation of cybercrime; 6 Victims of cybercrime; 7 Criminological theories and cybercrime; 8 Cybercrime investigations; 9 Interventions for cyber offenders; References; Index; Case law; About the authors