Cyber Criminology: Exploring Internet Crimes and Criminal Behavior

452 Pages·2011·3.19 MB·English

by  K. Jaishankar

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Victimization through the Internet is becoming more prevalent as cyber criminals
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personal information than ever is stored on networked computers, even the
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occasional or non-user is at risk. A collection of contributions from worldwide a
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Internet science, and criminology. a
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Topics discussed include:
• The growing menace of cyber crime in Nigeria
• Internet gambling and digital piracy
• Sexual addiction on the Internet, child pornography, and online C
exploitation of children
• Terrorist use of the Internet y
• Cyber stalking and cyber bullying
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• The victimization of women on social networking websites
• Malware victimization and hacking
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• The Islamic world in cyberspace and the propagation of Islamic
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• Human rights concerns that the digital age has created

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Approaching the topic from a social science perspective, the book explores
methods for determining the causes of computer crime victimization by
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examining an individual’s lifestyle patterns. It also publishes the findings of a
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study conducted on college students about online victimization. m
Advances in information and communications technologies have created a
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range of new crime problems that did not exist two decades ago. Opportunities
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for various criminal activities to pervade the Internet have led to the growth and
development of cyber criminology as a distinct discipline within the criminology o
framework. This volume explores all aspects of this nascent field and provides a
window on the future of Internet crimes and theories behind their origins. l
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Cyber Criminology
Exploring Internet Crimes
and Criminal Behavior

Cyber Criminology
Exploring Internet Crimes
and Criminal Behavior
Edited by
K. Jaishankar
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To my daughter D. J. Mriganayani who questions, put things
in diff erent perspectives, and makes me think radically

Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Editor xv
Contributors xvii
Introduction: Expanding Cyber Criminology With an
Avant-Garde Anthology xxvii
Section I
DEVIANCE AND CRIMINAL SUBCULTURE
IN CYBERSPACE
1
Café Culture and Heresy of Yahooboyism
in Nigeria 3
ADEBUSUYI I. ADENIRAN
2
Internet Gambling 13
HENRY N. PONTELL, GILBERT GEIS, AND GREGORY
C. BROWN
Section II
PERPETRATORS’ PERSPECTIVES AND
OFFENDER USE OF THE INTERNET
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Identity Construction Among Hackers 31
ORLY TURGEMAN-GOLDSCHMIDT
4
Virtual Sex Offenders: A Clinical Perspective 53
KIMBERLY YOUNG
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Self-Reported Internet Child Pornography
Consumers: A Personality Assessment Using
Bandura’s Theory of Reciprocal Determinism 65
KATHRYN C. SEIGFRIED-SPELLAR, RICHARD W.
LOVELY, AND MARCUS K. ROGERS
6
Online Social Networking and Pedophilia:
An Experimental Research “Sting” 79
RODERIC BROADHURST AND KASUN JAYAWARDENA
7
Adult–Child Sex Advocacy Websites as Learning
Environments for Crime 103
ROB D’OVIDIO, TYSON MITMAN, IMAANI JAMILLAH
EL-BURKI, AND WESLEY SHUMAR
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The Internet as a Terrorist’s Tool: A Social
Learning Perspective 127
TINA FREIBURGER AND JEFFREY S. CRANE
Section III
DIGITAL PIRACY
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Value and Choice: Examining Their Roles in
Digital Piracy 141
GEORGE E. HIGGINS
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Suing the Genie Back in the Bottle:
The Failed RIAA Strategy to Deter
P2P Network Users 155
MICHAEL BACHMANN
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Criminological Predictors of Digital Piracy:
A Path Analysis 173
WHITNEY D. GUNTER
Contents ix
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Change of Music Piracy and Neutralization:
An Examination Using Short-Term Longitudinal
Data 193
GEORGE E. HIGGINS, SCOTT E. WOLFE, AND
CATHERINE D. MARCUM
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Digital File Sharing: An Examination of
Neutralization and Rationalization Techniques
Employed by Digital File Sharers 209
ROBERT MOORE
Section IV
CYBER VICTIMIZATION
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Cyber-Routine Activities: Empirical Examination
of Online Lifestyle, Digital Guardians, and
Computer-Crime Victimization 229
KYUNG-SHICK CHOI
15
Adolescent Online Victimization and Constructs
of Routine Activities Theory 253
CATHERINE D. MARCUM
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Cyber Stalking: Typology, Etiology, and Victims 277
MICHAEL L. PITTARO
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Online Social Networking and Women Victims 299
DEBARATI HALDER AND K. JAISHANKAR
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Malware Victimization: A Routine Activities
Framework 317
ADAM M. BOSSLER AND THOMAS J. HOLT