Cybercrime: An Introduction to an Emerging Phenomenon

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

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.