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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462406403321

Titolo

Technocrime, policing and surveillance / / edited by Stephane Leman-Langlois

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-58607-X

9786613898524

0-203-10524-9

1-136-25306-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; ; 3

Altri autori (Persone)

Leman-LangloisStephane <1965->

Disciplina

363.25/968

Soggetti

Computer crimes

Computer security

Electronic surveillance

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Stéphane Leman-Langlois -- The criminal ecology of payment systems how "identity theft" evolved from plastic counterfeiting to the "crime of the century" / Benoît Dupont -- Media representations of the surveilled : exploring the 'subjects of surveillance' in mainstream media and alternate press releases / Rachel Finn and Michael McCahill -- The virtual surveillance lab : the creation of a simulated experimental environment / Stéphane Leman-Langlois -- Investigating transnational cybercrime : current challenges and emerging initiatives / Frédéric Lemieux and Brian Bales -- "We don't have these laser beams and stuff like that" : police investigations as low-tech work in a high-tech world / Laura Huey and Johnny Nhan -- Technology and database expansion : what impact on policing? / Olivier Ribaux and Tacha Hicks -- Technocrime, criminology, and marshall mcluhan : towards an inventory of criminological effects / James Sheptycki.

Sommario/riassunto

The growth of technology allows us to imagine entirely new ways of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals,



police, courts, victims and citizens. Technology offers not only new tools for committing and fighting crime, but new ways to look for, unveil, label crimes and new ways to know, watch, prosecute and punish criminals. This book attempts to disentangle the realities, the myths, the politics, the theories and the practices of our new, technology-assisted, era of crime and policing.Technocrime, policing and surveillance explores new areas of