| Cybercrime and the Law: Challenges, Issues, and Outcomes Contributor(s): Brenner, Susan W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555537995 ISBN-13: 9781555537999 Publisher: Northeastern University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology - Law | Computer & Internet - Law | Criminal Law - General |
| Dewey: 345.730 |
| LCCN: 2012014928 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The exponential increase in cybercrimes in the past decade has raised new issues and challenges for law and law enforcement. Based on case studies drawn from her work as a lawyer, Susan W. Brenner identifies a diverse range of cybercrimes, including crimes that target computers (viruses, worms, Trojan horse programs, malware and DDoS attacks) and crimes in which the computer itself is used as a tool (cyberstalking, cyberextortion, cybertheft, and embezzlement). Illuminating legal issues unique to investigations in a digital environment, Brenner examines both national law enforcement agencies and transnational crime, and shows how cyberspace erodes the functional and empirical differences that have long distinguished crime from terrorism and both from warfare. |