Policing Cyberspace in Nigeria
Subtitle: First Nigerian Text on Cybercrimes and Cybernetics
Publisher: LifeGate Publishers; Velma Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ibadan, Nigeria
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover; Paperback; eBook
Number of pages: 348
Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Table of Cases; title: Table of Statues; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Tribute to a Colossus, Col. Sani Bello; title: Introduction; title: PART A: Crimes on the Internet; title: CHAPTER ONE - The Internet; title: The Internet in Nigeria; title: Internet Uses and Abuses; title: CHAPTER TWO - Cybercrime; title: Definition of Cybercrime; title: Culpability of Cybercriminals; title: Actus Reus; title: Mens Rea; title: CHAPTER THREE - The Development of Cyber-Regulations on Cybercrimes; title: Combating Cybercrime through Legislations:  A Comparative Analysis; title: Cybercrime: The American Perspective; title: Cybercrime under the English Law; title: European Cybercrime Treaty; title: PART B: Specific Offences; title: CHAPTER FOUR - Cyberfraud; title: Textbook Taxonomies; title: Newer Hi-Tech Fraud; title: Other Forms of Cyberfraud; title: Fraud Under the Nigerian Law; title: Obtaining by False Pretences; title: The Advanced Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 1995; title: Obtaining Credit by False Pretence or Other Fraud; title: Contract Scams and Other Fraud; title: Judicial Approach to Cyberfraud in Nigeria; title: Cyberfraud and the European Convention on Cybercrime; title: CHAPTER FIVE - Malicious Codes; title: Types of Malicious Codes; title: Computer Virus; title: Trojan Horse; title: Worms; title: Rootkits; title: Backdoor; title: What the Law Says About Malicious Codes; title: CHAPTER SIX - Hacking; title: Hacking Tools; title: Phreaking; title: Hacking and the Law; title: CHAPTER SEVEN - Cybertheft; title: Types of Cybertheft; title: CHAPTER EIGHT - Cyberstalking; title: Taxonomies of Cyberstalkers; title: Vindictive Cyberstalkers; title: Composed Cyberstalkers; title: Intimate Cyberstalkers; title: Collective Cyberstalkers; title: Combating Cyberstalking; title: CHAPTER NINE - Cyberterrorism; title: Cost Implication of Cyberterrorism; title: CHAPTER TEN - Child Pornography; title: Child Pornography and Erotica; title: What the Law Seeks to Protect; title: Who is a Child?; title: What is Pornography?; title: Mens Rea and Actus Reus of Child Pornography; title: PART C: Combating Cybercrimes; title: CHAPTER ELEVEN - Prosecuting Cybercrime in Nigeria; title: Challenges; title: Administrative Predicament; title: Procedural Predicament; title: CHAPTER TWELVE - Institutional Framework for Combating Cybercrime in Nigeria; title: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); title: The Nigerian Cyber-crime Working Group (NCWG); title: CHAPTER THIRTEN - Waging the Cybercrime War; title: APPENDIX; title: I   - The Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime (CETS No. 185), (Budapest) 2001; title: II  - 2005 Model Legislation Implementing the Convention on Cybercrime; title: III - The U.S. Wire Fraud Act 18 U.S.C. 1343; title: IV - The U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. 1030; title: V  - U.K. Computer Misuse Act, 1990; title: VI - 2001 Model Code of Cybercrimes Investigative Procedure; title: GENERAL INDEX