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In this Handbook, editor Philip Reichel has brought together renowned scholars from around the world to offer various perspectives providing global coverage of the increasingly transnational nature of crime and the attempts to provide cooperative cross-national responses. This volume not only has a comprehensive introduction to the topic of transnational crime but also provides specific examples such as international terrorism, drug trafficking, and money laundering to illustrate this ever expanding phenomenon. The Handbook also examines cross-national and international efforts by police, courts, international agencies, and correctional authorities to deal with transnational crime. Part IV concludes the book by addressing emerging issues in transnational crime and justice with particular attention given to transnational organized crime in all regions of the world.
Computer Crime in a Brave New World
Computer Crime in a Brave New World
In this chapter,1 we will examine a kind of crime that will, in all likelihood, occupy the attention and research of future criminologists and criminal justice experts to at least the extent that “street crime” does today. Computer crime—its variants, its control, its motivations—is new to us, both practitioners and researchers alike. We grope our way into the 21st century.
We have only recently moved to legally define computer crime as distinct from traditional crimes such as fraud and theft. Furthermore, early attempts to control computer crime find sophisticated computer users able to wear the equivalent of electronic gloves to hide their “virtual fingerprints” and identity. Jurisdictional issues related to ...
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