1st Edition

Computer Misuse Response, Regulation and the Law

By Stefan Fafinski Copyright 2009
352 Pages
by Willan

352 Pages
by Willan

This book is concerned with the nature of computer misuse and the legal and extra-legal responses to it. It explores what is meant by the term 'computer misuse' and charts its emergence as a problem as well as its expansion in parallel with the continued progression in computing power, networking, reach and accessibility. In doing so, it surveys the attempts of the domestic criminal law to deal... Read more
1. Introduction  Part 1: Constructing the Problem of Computer Misuse  2. The Emergence of the Problem of Computer Misuse  3. The Evolution of the Problem of Computer Misuse  4. Computer Misuse and the Criminal Law  Part 2: The Governance of Computer Misuse  5. The Risk of Computer Misuse and its Governance  6. The Legal Governance of Computer Misuse: Beyond the Domestic Criminal Law  7. The Extra-legal Governance of Computer Misuse  Part 3: Examining the Solution  8. The Constellation of Control

Biography

Stefan Fafinski is Lecturer in Law at Brunel University.

'Provides a comprehensive, valuable and timely critical review of the legal and extra-legal governance of computer misuse.' − Professor Martin Wasik CBE, Keele University