Author: Edited by Yvonne Jewkes and Majid Yar
ISBN No: 1-843925-24-9
Review date: 05/12/2025
No of pages: 664
Publisher: Willan
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Brief:
The Handbook of Internet Crime is another door-stopper from specialist criminology publisher Willan, that the masters student in security and risk might want as a work of reference.
Edited by two UK criminology professors, it gathers together mainly UK scholars, to explore issues around internet-related crime, deviance, policing, law and regulation. While some chapters on the law, and culture, may be off the track for private security people, others are more relevant, stressing the global nature of cybercrime, and hence the international response necessary. Are regulators, retailers and consumers equal to it? While we may have heard of identity theft and computer hackers, UK private security has to protect intellectual property crime from cyber-pirate out to ‘steal’ what David S Wall and one of the editors, Majid Yar, term ‘informational intangibles’. This matters, if you are trying to sell music, or perfume, or branded clothing.
