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Dot.cons book cover

1st Edition

Dot.cons

Edited By Yvonne Jewkes Copyright 2003
208 Pages
by Willan

208 Pages
by Willan

208 Pages
by Willan
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Cyberspace opens up infinitely new possibilities to the deviant imagination. With access to the Internet and sufficient know-how you can, if you are so inclined, buy a bride, cruise gay bars, go on a global shopping spree with someone else's credit card, break into a bank's security system, plan a demonstration in another country and hack into the Pentagon − all on the same day. In more than any... Read more
1. Crime, deviance and the disembodied self: transcending the dangers of corporeality, Yvonne Jewkes and Keith Sharp  2. Policing the Net: crime, regulation and surveillance in cyberspace, Yvonne Jewkes  3. Cyberpunters and cyberwhores: prostitution on the Internet, Keith Sharp and Sarah Earle  4. The electronic cloak: secret sexual deviance in cybersociety, Heather DiMarco  5. Cyber-chattels: buying brides and babies on the Net, Gayle Letherby and Jen Marchbank  6. What a tangled web we weave: identity theft and the Internet, Emily Finch  7. Cyberstalking: an international perspective, Janice Joseph  8. Maestros or misogynists? Gender and the social construction of hacking, Paul A. Taylor  9. Digital counter-cultures and the nature of electronic social and political movements, Rinella Cere  10. Investigating cybersociety: a consideration of the ethical and practical issues surrounding online research in chat rooms, Andrew D. DiMarco and Heather DiMarco

Biography

Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. She has written extensively on the problems of policing cybercrime as well as more generally about the relationship between new technologies, crime and deviance. Her books include Dot.cons: crime, deviance and identity on the internet (Willan, 2003) and Media and Crime (Sage, 2004). She is also cofounder and Editor of Crime, Media, Culture: an international journal and editor of Handbook on Prisons (Willan, 2007).

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