This book contains 31 original scholarly articles on all aspects of cybercrime—from emerging global crimes of the Internet, to criminological perspectives on cybercrime to investigating and prosecuting cybercrimes. Offering a collection of previously unpublished works, this book examines emerging global crimes, challenges faced by law enforcement, and the underlying reasons for the rise in such activities. Through a variety of essays, it explores the role of the cybercriminal, the victim, and the cybercriminal’s impact on the criminal justice system.

Foreword

Preface

About the Editors

PARTI

ONLINE PREDATORY CHILD VICTIMIZATION AND EXPLOITATION

1  Sexual Addiction to the Internet: From Curiosity to

  Compulsive Behavior (Pittaro)

2  Pedophilia, Pornography, and Stalking: Analyzing Child

 Victimization on the Internet (Jaishankar/Halder/Ramdoss)

3  Internet Child Sexual Exploitation: Offenses, Offenders,

  andVictims (Huang/Leopard/Brockman)

4  Cyber Bullying: A Transnational Perspective (Jaishankar/Shariff)

5  Internet Crimes: Youth and Children (Raghavan/Ranjan/Reddy)

PART II

EMERGING GLOBAL CRIMES OF THE INTERNET

6  Online Pharmaceutical Sales and the Challenge for Law

 Enforcement (Finley)

7  Charges Without Borders: Consumer Credit Card Fraud in

 Ghana (Davison)

8  Regulating Cyberstalking (Basu/Jones)

9  Internet Gambling (Geis/Brown/Pontell)

10 Nature and Distribution ofPhishing (Stroik/Huang)

11 You Can't Cheat an Honest Man: Making ($$$s and) Sense

 of the Nigerian E-mail Scams (King/Thomas)

12 Identity Theft Causes, Correlates, and Factors: A Content

 Analysis (Berg)

13 Internet Fraud and Cyber Crime (Cukier/Levin)

PART III

CRIMINOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CYBER CRIME

14 Space Transition Theory of Cyber Crimes (Jaishankar)

15 Routine Activity Theory and Internet Crime (Cox/Johnson/Richards)

16 The Rhetoric of Hackers' Neutralizations (Turgeman-Goldschmidt)

17 Lone Hacks or Group Cracks: Examining the Social Organization

 of Computer Hackers (Holt)

18 "It's like Printing Money": Piracy on the Internet (Nhan)

19 The Warez Scene: Digital Piracy in the Online World (Ponte)

20 Internet and Crime Trends (Ouimet)

21 Internet Gambling: The Birth of aVictimless Crime?

  (Giacopassi/Pitts)

PART IV

INVESTIGATING AND PROSECUTING CYBER CRIMES

22 Investigating Computer Crime (Hinduja)

23 Criminal Profiling and Cyber Criminal Investigations

  (Shoemaker / Kennedy)

24 Digital Evidence (Scarborough/Rogers/Frakes/Martin)

25 The Dateline Effect: Internet Stings (Rubenser/Orvis/Rush)

26 Evidence Issues Involved in Prosecuting Internet

 Crime (Roberson)

27 The Politics of Internet Crimes (Marion)

28 The Fourth Amendment Impact on Electronic Evidence

  (Obinyan / Ikegwuonu/Vanderpuye)

PARTV

CYBER TERRORISM: THE "NEW" FACE OF TERRORISM

29 The Dark Side of the Web: Terrorists' Use of the Internet

 (Damphousse)

30 Cyber Terrorism: Problems, Perspectives, and Prescription (Soma

 Sundaram/Jaishankar)

31 Cyber Terrorism and the Law (Walker)

Index