Technocrime

This book is concerned with the concept of 'technocrime'. The term encompasses crimes committed on or with computers - the standard definition of cybercrime - but it goes well beyond this to convey the idea that technology enables an entirely new way of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals, police, courts, victims and citizens."Technocrime" differs from books concerned more narrowly with cybercrime in taking an approach and understanding of the scope of technology's impact on crime and crime control in doing so, this book: uncovers mechanisms by which behaviours become crimes or cease to be called crimes and identifies a number of corporate, government and individual actors who are instrumental in this construction; looks at the beneficiaries of increased surveillance, control and protection as well as the targets of it; and, covers specific technologies (e.g. the use of CCTV in various settings; computers, hackers and security experts; photo radar) but have a wider objective to provide a comparative perspective and some broader theoretical foundations for thinking about crime and technology than have existed hitherto.This is a pioneering book which advances our understanding of the relationship between crime and technology, drawing upon the disciplines of criminology, political science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, surveillance studies and cultural studies.

ISBN 1843923858   Pages 288 ISBN13 9781843923855 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 544 Imprint Willan Publishing   Published in Cullompton Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 01 Jul 2008   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2008298900   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 364.168   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Foreword by Gary T. Marx
1		Introduction: technocrime by Stephane Leman-Langlois		1
2		Crime and lawfulness in the age of all-seeing techno-humanity by David Brin		14
3		The local impact of police videosurveillance on the social construction of security by Stephane Leman-Langlois		27
4		Cyberwars and cybercrimes by Benoit Gagnon		46
5		Policing through nodes, clusters and bandwidth by Johnny Nhan and Laura Huey		66
6		Second Life and governing deviance in virtual worlds by Jennifer Whitson and Aaron Doyle		88
7		Privacy as currency: crime, information and control in cyberspace by Stephane Leman-Langlois		112
8		Information technology and criminal intelligence a comparative perspective by Frederic Lemieux		139
9		Scientific policing and criminal investigation by Jean-Paul Brodeur		169
10		Sorting systems: identification by database by David Lyon		194
11		A view of surveillance by Peter K. Manning		209
12		Afterword: technopolice by Stephane Leman-Langlois		243
		Index		247

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