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New Perspectives on Cybercrime

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides an appraisal of the current state of play in cybercrime research
  • Offers new directions and conceptual paradigms for further research
  • Provokes debate about how cybercrime should be dealt with in social policy

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity (PSCYBER)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed
    Pages 1-9
  3. Law and Order in Cyberspace

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Neuro-Agency, Neuro-Ethics and Cybercrime

      • Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed
      Pages 13-26
    3. Biology and Cybercrime: Towards a Genetic-Social, Predictive Model of Cyber Violence

      • Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed
      Pages 27-44
    4. Cyber Vigilantism – How the Cyber Mob Behaves

      • Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed
      Pages 45-61
    5. Cyber Armies – The Growth of the Cyber Defence Industry

      • Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed
      Pages 63-78
  4. Gender and Deviance in Cyberspace

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. Cyber Grooming: How Biological Variables Reinforce Cognitive Distortion

      • Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed
      Pages 81-111
    3. Trolling, the Ugly Face of the Social Network

      • Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed
      Pages 113-139
    4. Virtual Violence: Cyberspace, Misogyny and Online Abuse

      • Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed
      Pages 141-158
    5. Silenced by Free Speech: How Cyberabuse Affects Debate and Democracy

      • Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed
      Pages 159-174
  5. Identity and Cyberspace

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
    2. The Problem of ‘Virtual Criminology’

      • Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed
      Pages 177-196
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 253-259

About this book

This exciting and timely collection showcases recent work on Cybercrime by members of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU], directed by Dr Tim Owen at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. This book offers up-to-date perspectives on Cybercrime based upon a Realist social ontology, alongside suggestions for how research into Cybercrime might move beyond what can be seen as the main theoretical obstacles facing criminological theory: the stagnation of critical criminology and the nihilistic relativism of the postmodern and post-structuralist cultural turn. 


Organised into three sections; ‘Law and Order in Cyberspace’, ‘Gender and Deviance in Cyberspace’, and ‘Identity and Cyberspace’, this cutting-edge volume explores some of the most crucial issues we face today on the internet: grooming, gendered violence, freedom of speech and intellectual property crime. Providing unique new theory on Cybercrime, this book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of Criminology, Law, Sociology, Philosophy, Policing and Forensic Science, Information Technology and Journalism, in addition to professionals working within law and order agencies and the security services.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Director of UCLan Cybercrime Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire , Preston, United Kingdom

    Tim Owen

  • Director of UCLan Cybercrime Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

    Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed

About the authors

Dr Tim Owen is Senior Lecturer in Criminology  at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and the Director of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU]. 


Wayne Noble is a lecturer in criminology and digital publishing at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.


Faye Christabel Speed is an Associate Lecturer of Criminology at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, and a Research Fellow of UCLan Cybercrime Research Unit. 


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eBook USD 49.99
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 64.99
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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