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Subtitle: Crime, Deviance and Identity on the Internet
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cullompton
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781843924449
Subjects: Computer crimes
Description: 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 other medium, time and place are transcended, undermining the traditional relationship between physical context and social situation. This book crosses the boundaries of sociological, criminological a.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Authors; 1 Crime, deviance and the disembodied self: transcending the dangers of corporeality; 2 Policing the Net: crime, regulation and surveillance in cyberspace; 3 Cyberpunters and cyberwhores: prostitution on the Internet; 4 The electronic cloak: secret sexual deviance in cybersociety; 5 Cyber-chattels: buying brides and babies on the Net; 6 What a tangled web we weave: identity theft and the Internet; 7 Cyberstalking: an international perspective; 8 Maestros or misogynists? Gender and the social construction of hacking.; title: 9 Digital counter-cultures and the nature of electronic social and political movements10 Investigating cybersociety: a consideration of the ethical and practical issues surrounding online research in chat rooms; References; Index.