There are today no more compelling sets of crime and security
threats facing nations, communities, organizations, groups,
families and individuals than those encompassed by cybercrime. For
over fifty years crime enabled by computing and telecommunications
technologies have increasingly threatened societies as they have
become reliant on information systems for sustaining modernized
living. Cybercrime is not a new phenomenon, rather an evolving one
with respect to adoption of information technology (IT) for abusive
and criminal purposes. Further, by virtue of the myriad ways in
which IT is abused, it represents a technological shift in the
nature of crime rather than a new form of criminal behavior. In
other words, the nature of crime and its impacts on society are
changing to the extent computers and other forms of IT are used for
illicit purposes. Understanding the subject, then, is imperative to
combatting it and to addressing it at various levels.
This work is the first comprehensive encyclopedia to address
cybercrime. Topical articles address all key areas of concern and
specifically those having to with: terminology, definitions and
social constructs of crime; national infrastructure security
vulnerabilities and capabilities; types of attacks to computers and
information systems; computer abusers and cybercriminals;
criminological, sociological, psychological and technological
theoretical underpinnings of cybercrime; social and economic
impacts of crime enabled with information technology (IT) inclusive
of harms experienced by victims of cybercrimes and computer abuse;
emerging and controversial issues such as online pornography, the
computer hacking subculture and potential negative effects of
electronic gaming and so-called computer addiction; bodies and
specific examples of U.S. federal laws and regulations that help to
prevent cybercrimes; examples and perspectives of law enforcement,
regulatory and professional member associations concerned about
cybercrime and its impacts; and computer forensics as well as
general investigation/prosecution of high tech crimes and attendant
challenges within the United States and internationally.
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