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Cybercrime and the Internet: An Introduction Perceptions of Cybercrime Cybercrime: Questions and Answers A Brief History and Analysis of the Internet Defining and Classifying Cybercrime What's 'New' About Cybercrime? How Many Crimes? Assessing the Scale of Internet Offences Challenges for Criminology and Criminal Justice Summary Study questions Further reading Hackers, Crackers and Viral Coders Hackers and Hacking - Contested Definitions Representations of Hackers and Hacking: Technological Fears and Fantasies What Hackers Actually Do: A Brief Guide for the Technologically Bewildered Hacker Myths and Realities: Wizards or Button-Pushers? 'Why Do They Do It?' Motivation, Psychology, Gender and Youth Hacking and the Law: Legislative Innovations and Responses Summary Study Questions Further Reading Political Hacking: From Hacktivism to Cyberterrorism Introduction Hacktivism and the Politics of Resistance in a Globalised World The Spectre of Cyberterrorism Why Cyber-Terror? Terrorist Advantages of Utilising Internet Attacks Rhetorics and Myths of Cyberterrorism Alternate Conjunctions Between Terrorism and the Internet Summary Study Questions Further Reading Virtual 'Pirates': Intellectual Property Theft Online Introduction Intellectual Property, Copyright and 'Piracy': An Overview Scope and Scale of 'Piracy' Activity Explaining the Growth of Internet 'Piracy' Who Are the 'Pirates'? The Development of 'Anti-Piracy' Initiatives Thinking Critically About 'Piracy' Statistics Thinking Critically About Intellectual Property Rights Summary Study Questions Further Reading Cyber-Frauds, Scams and Cons Introduction Scope and Scale of Online Fraud Varieties of Online Fraud Online Fraud: Perpetrators' Advantages and Criminal Justice's Problems Strategies For Combating Internet Frauds Summary Study Questions Further Reading Illegal, Harmful and Offensive Content Online: From Hate Speech to 'the Dangers' of Pornography Introduction Thinking About 'Hate Speech' Hate Speech Online Legal, Policing and Political Challenges in Tackling Online Hate Speech The Growth and Popularity of Internet Pornography Criminological Issues Relating to Internet Pornography Summary Study questions Further reading Child Pornography and Child Sex Abuse Imagery Introduction Child pornography and Child Sex Abuse Images Online Legislative and Policing Measures to Combat Online Child Pornography Legal and Policing cChallenges in Tackling Child Pornography The Controversy Over Virtual Child Pornography Summary Study questions Further Reading The Victimization of Individuals Online: Cyberstalking and Paedophilia Introduction The Emergence of Stalking as a Crime Problem Cyberstalking Online Paedophilia Thinking Critically About Online Victimization: Stalking and Paedophilia as Moral Panics? Summary Study Questions Further Reading Policing the Internet Introduction Public Policing and the Cybercrime Problem Pluralised Policing: The Involvement of Quasi-State and Non-State Actors in Policing the Internet Privatised 'For-Profit' Cybercrime Policing Explaining the Pluralisation and Privatisation of Internet Policing Critical Issues About Private Policing of the Internet Summary Study Questions Further Reading Cybercrimes and Cyberliberties: Surveillance, Privacy and Crime Control Introduction From Surveillance to Dataveillance: The Rise of the Electronic Web The Development of Internet Surveillance The Dilemmas of Surveillance as Crime Crime Control: The Case of Encryption Summary Study questions Further reading