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Fraudulent, harmful, or at best useless pharmaceutical and
therapeutic approaches developed outside science-based medicine
have boomed in recent years, especially due to the
commercialisation of cyberspace. The latter has played a
fundamental role in the rise of false 'health experts', and in the
creation of filter bubbles and echo chambers that have contributed
to the formation of highly polarised debates on non-science-based
health practices-online as well as offline. By adopting a
multidisciplinary approach, this edited book brings together
contributions of international academics and practitioners from
criminology, digital sociology, health psychology, medicine, law,
physics, and journalism, where they critically analyse different
types of non-science-based health approaches. With this volume, we
aim to reconcile different scientific understandings of these
practices, synthesising a variety of empirical, theoretical and
interpretative approaches, and exploring the challenges,
implications and potential remedies to the spread of dangerous and
misleading health information. This edited book will offer some
food for thought not only to students and academics in the social
sciences, health psychology and medicine among other disciplines,
but also to medical practitioners, science journalists, debunkers,
policy makers and the general public, as they might all benefit
from a greater awareness and critical knowledge of the harms caused
by non-scientific health practices.
Fraudulent, harmful, or at best useless pharmaceutical and
therapeutic approaches developed outside science-based medicine
have boomed in recent years, especially due to the
commercialisation of cyberspace. The latter has played a
fundamental role in the rise of false 'health experts', and in the
creation of filter bubbles and echo chambers that have contributed
to the formation of highly polarised debates on non-science-based
health practices-online as well as offline. By adopting a
multidisciplinary approach, this edited book brings together
contributions of international academics and practitioners from
criminology, digital sociology, health psychology, medicine, law,
physics, and journalism, where they critically analyse different
types of non-science-based health approaches. With this volume, we
aim to reconcile different scientific understandings of these
practices, synthesising a variety of empirical, theoretical and
interpretative approaches, and exploring the challenges,
implications and potential remedies to the spread of dangerous and
misleading health information. This edited book will offer some
food for thought not only to students and academics in the social
sciences, health psychology and medicine among other disciplines,
but also to medical practitioners, science journalists, debunkers,
policy makers and the general public, as they might all benefit
from a greater awareness and critical knowledge of the harms caused
by non-scientific health practices.
This book presents an historical and sociological account of the
Italian mafia-type organisation known as the 'ndrangheta. It draws
together diverse perspectives on the various 'ndrangheta clans and
their behavioural models, focusing specifically on their
organisational skills, their bonds with Calabrian society and
Calabrian communities around the world, their mobility, and their
characterisation as poly-crime organisations. The authors
demonstrate that 'ndrangheta clans have an innovative way of being
and doing mafia work through a dense network of relationships both
in the 'upperworld' and in the 'underworld', a particularly acute
sense of business, a reputation built on the protection of blood
and family ties, and, last but not least, a symbiotic relationship
and camouflage within Calabrian society. By focusing on both the
structures and the activities of the clans and with findings based
on judicial documents, this book explores why the 'ndrangheta is
today labeled as "the most powerful Italian mafia". It will be of
great interest to upper-level students and scholars of organised
crime and sociology.
This book presents an historical and sociological account of the
Italian mafia-type organisation known as the 'ndrangheta. It draws
together diverse perspectives on the various 'ndrangheta clans and
their behavioural models, focusing specifically on their
organisational skills, their bonds with Calabrian society and
Calabrian communities around the world, their mobility, and their
characterisation as poly-crime organisations. The authors
demonstrate that 'ndrangheta clans have an innovative way of being
and doing mafia work through a dense network of relationships both
in the 'upperworld' and in the 'underworld', a particularly acute
sense of business, a reputation built on the protection of blood
and family ties, and, last but not least, a symbiotic relationship
and camouflage within Calabrian society. By focusing on both the
structures and the activities of the clans and with findings based
on judicial documents, this book explores why the 'ndrangheta is
today labeled as "the most powerful Italian mafia". It will be of
great interest to upper-level students and scholars of organised
crime and sociology.
This edited book promotes and facilitates cybercrime research by
providing a cutting-edge collection of perspectives on the critical
usage of online data across platforms, as well as the
implementation of both traditional and innovative analysis methods.
The accessibility, variety and wealth of data available online
presents substantial opportunities for researchers from different
disciplines to study cybercrimes and, more generally, human
behavior in cyberspace. The unique and dynamic characteristics of
cyberspace often demand cross-disciplinary and cross-national
research endeavors, but disciplinary, cultural and legal
differences can hinder the ability of researchers to collaborate.
This work also provides a review of the ethics associated with the
use of online data sources across the globe. The authors are drawn
from multiple disciplines and nations, providing unique insights
into the value and challenges evident in online data use for
cybercrime scholarship. It is a key text for researchers at the
upper undergraduate level and above.
The coronavirus pandemic struck the world in a very distinctive
way: experience from past pandemics or from more recent outbreaks
could give us only a limited understanding of how the situation was
likely to unfold. In this context, and with cyberspace being
increasingly used to support health-related decision making and to
market health products, potentially harmful behaviours have been
carried out by individuals propagating non-science-based health
(mis)information and conspiratorial thinking. This includes, among
other actions, boycotting the use of masks and physical distancing,
proactively opposing the use of the COVID-19 candidate vaccines,
and promoting the use of useless or even dangerous substances to
prevent or resist the virus. By relying on a virtual ethnography
approach carried out on Italian-speaking alternative lifestyle and
counter-information online communities, this book shows how the
nature of personal interactions online and the construction of both
personal and group identities through the development of an 'us vs.
them' narrative, are central to the creation and propagation of
medical misinformation. This book is essential reading for
researchers in the social, health, and data sciences and also
professionals interested in scientific communication.
This new textbook offers a systematic introduction to a wide array
of cybercrimes, exploring their diversity and the range of possible
responses to them. Combining coverage of theoretical perspectives
with more technical knowledge, the book is divided into ten
chapters which first lay the foundations of the topic and then
consider the most important types of cybercrimes - from crimes
against devices to political offences - before finally exploring
ways to prevent, disrupt, analyse and better comprehend them.
Examples from several countries are included, in the attempt to
show how crime and deviance in cyberspace are truly global
problems, with different countries experiencing comparable sets of
challenges. At the same time, the author illustrates how these
challenges manifest themselves differently, depending on the
socio-legal culture of reference. This text offers an accessible
introduction to the topic for all those studying cybercrimes at
undergraduate or postgraduate level. Whether students approach the
topic from a criminological, legal or computer science perspective,
this multidisciplinary approach of this text provides a common
language to guide them through the intricacies of criminal and
deviant behaviours in cyberspace.
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