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This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and micro level, making this a valuable resource for postgraduate students and academics conducting research across the social sciences. The topics covered are impressively far-ranging and timely, including machine learning, social media, surveillance, misinformation, digital labour, and beyond. This innovative Handbook perfectly captures the state of the art of a field which is rapidly gaining cross-disciplinary interest and global importance, and establishes a thematic framework for future teaching and research. Part 1: Theorising Digital Societies; Part 2: Researching Digital Societies; Part 3: Sociotechnical Systems and Disruptive Technologies in Action; Part 4: Digital Society and New Social Dilemmas; Part 5: Governance and Regulation; and Part 6: Digital Futures.
Frauds in Digital Society
Frauds in Digital Society
Introduction
When Ulrich Beck (1992) coined the term ‘risk society', crime barely featured among the risks. Since then, it appears that risks and threats to current and future processes in the ‘cyber’ world are everywhere (as they are to other – usually mainly offline – arenas of ‘transnational’ crime such as money laundering, organised crime and, above all, terrorism): when one sends electronic communications of any kind or consults anything on the Web, what component of these is not transnational? But some technologies that enable fraud can be analogue rather than digital. These include the counterfeiting of coins and paper money, and paper ‘bills of exchange’ and ‘letters of credit’ that could ...
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