Cyber Criminology Exploring Internet Crimes and Criminal Behavior

Section I: Deviance and Criminal Subculture in Cyberspace

Café Culture and Heresy of Yahooboyism in Nigeria; A. I. Adeniran

Internet Gambling; H. N. Pontell, G. Geis, and G. C. Brown

Section II: Perpetrators; Perspectives and Offender Use of the Internet

Identity Construction Among Hackers; O. Turgeman-Goldschmidt

Virtual Sex Offenders: A Clinical Perspective; K. Young

Self-Reported Internet Child Pornography Consumers: A Personality Assessment Using Bandura’s Theory of Reciprocal Determinism; K. C. Seigfried-Spellar, R. W. Lovely, and M. K. Rogers

Online Social Networking and Pedophilia: An Experimental Research "Sting"; R. Broadhurst and K. Jayawardena

Adult–Child Sex Advocacy Websites as Learning Environments for Crime; R. D’Ovidio, T. Mitman, I. J. El-Burki, and W. Shumar

The Internet as a Terrorist’s Tool: A Social Learning Perspective; T. Freiburger and J. S. Crane

Section III: Digital Piracy

Value and Choice: Examining Their Roles in Digital Piracy; G. E. Higgins

Suing the Genie Back in the Bottle: The Failed RIAA Strategy to Deter P2P Network Users; M. Bachmann

Criminological Predictors of Digital Piracy: A Path Analysis; W. D. Gunter

Change of Music Piracy and Neutralization: An Examination Using Short-Term Longitudinal Data; G. E. Higgins, S. E. Wolfe, and C. D. Marcum

Digital File Sharing: An Examination of Neutralization and Rationalization Techniques Employed by Digital File Sharers; R. Moore

Section IV: Cyber Victimization

Cyber-Routine Activities: Empirical Examination of Online Lifestyle, Digital Guardians, and Computer-Crime Victimization; K.-S. Choi

Adolescent Online Victimization and Constructs of Routine Activities Theory; C. D. Marcum

Cyber Stalking: Typology, Etiology, and Victims; M. L. Pittaro

Online Social Networking and Women Victims; D. Halder and K. Jaishankar

Malware Victimization: A Routine Activities Framework; A. M. Bossler and T. J. Holt

Section V: Legal and Policy Issues of Cyber Crimes

Fatwas Chaos Ignites Cyber Vandalism: Does Islamic Criminal Law Prohibit Cyber Vandalism? A. M. Maghaireh

Cyber Bullying: Legal Obligations and Educational Policy Vacuum; S. Shariff and D. L. Hoff

Human Rights Infringement in the Digital Age; R. G. Smith

Conclusion; K. Jaishankar

Index

Biography

K. Jaishankar, PhD, is a senior assistant professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cyber Criminology and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences. He is the founding president of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) and founding executive director of the Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling. Among the recent books he has written and/or co-edited are Cyber Bullying: Profile and Policy Guidelines, International Perspectives on Crime and Justice, Trends and Issues of Victimology, and Crime Victims and Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Principles. He pioneered the development of the new field of cyber criminology and is the proponent of the space transition theory of cyber crimes. His areas of academic competence include cyber criminology, victimology, crime mapping, geographic information systems, communal violence, theoretical criminology, policing, and crime prevention.