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Record Nr.

UNINA9911010525503321

Autore

Owen Tim

Titolo

Cybercrime and Cyber Terrorism : A View from the Philosophy of Social Science / / by Tim Owen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

3-031-87853-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 pages)

Disciplina

364.168

Soggetti

Computer crimes

Philosophy and social sciences

Criminology

Criminal behavior

Terrorism

Political violence

Evolutionary psychology

Cybercrime

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Criminology Theory

Criminal Behavior

Terrorism and Political Violence

Evolutionary Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Forms of Cyber Terrorism and Some Possible Explanations -- 3. Constructing a Genetic-Social Framework in the Shadow of Covid-19 -- 4. Applying Genetic-Social meta-theory to Cyber Terrorism.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the cyber terrorist offender through social and biological theories. It critiques how traditional criminology theory falls short when applied to cyber-terrorism. Using a four-fold lens, it takes into analytical consideration a cluster of psychological, social, genetic and neurological variables. It uses multiple examples to show how this



approach can be applied to selected aspects of cyber terrorism, including definitions of terrorism per se, forms of cyber terrorism, examples of counter terrorism and attempts to combat cyber terrorism, and the possible motivations for cyber terrorism. This Genetic-Social approach seeks to ‘build bridges’ between the biological and social sciences, providing an ontologically-flexible, more integrationalist conceptualisation of the phenomena of cyber terrorism. It includes a chapter explaining how the post-Covid era has changed the playing field in a way that advantages cyber-terrorists and it also discusses a blueprint for a potential predictive model of cyber terrorism.