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Cybercrime: An Introduction to an Emerging Phenomenon

Author: George Higgins;
Division : McGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN-13: 9780073401553 (ISBN-10: 0073401552)
© 2010 | 1st Edition | 192 pages , Softcover
Status : Active, In-Print
List Price: $84.95
Online Learning Centre : http://www.mhhe.com/higgins1e

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Description :
Cybercrime: An Introduction to an Emerging Phenomenon covers current issues such as information assurance, federal and state laws, cyberharassment, cyberporn, cyberfraud, and intellectual property and privacy as well as future issues such as globalization and international policing and laws. This text provides students and scholars easy access to current peer reviewed works that examine the current and future issues of cybercrime and outline the historical and technical roots of the Internet and cybercrime. George E. Higgins won the William L. Simon/Anderson Publishing Outstanding Paper Award at the 2006 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) meeting, is a current member of the ACJS Affirmative Action committee, and authored several articles on cybercrime.

New Features :

As cybercrime becomes more global, this text offers coverage of globalization and international policing and laws.

Table of Contents :

    Chapter 1. Introduction to Cybercrime
    Chapter 2. Cyberharassment/Cyberstalking
      Sexual harassment on the Internet
      Online aggressor/targets, aggressors, and targets: A comparison of associated youth characteristics
    Chapter 3. Cyberpornography
      Demographic characteristics of persons using pornography in three technological contexts
      Adult social bonds and use of Internet pornography
    Chapter 4. Cyberfraud/Identity Theft
      Who are you? How to protect against identity theft
      A contextual framework for combating identity theft
    Chapter 5. Intellectual Property Theft
      Causes and Prevention of Intellectual Property Crime
      Digital piracy: Assessing the contributions of an integrated self-control theory and social learning theory
    Chapter 6. Hackers, Crackers, and Phone Phreaks
      Hackers
    Chapter 7. Criminal Justice and Cyberspace
      Perceptions of local and state law enforcement concerning the role of computer crime investigative teams
      An ad hoc review of digital forensic models
    Chapter 8. Future Issues
      Theory and policy in online privacy
      Index

About the Author:

George Higgins
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