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Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age, David S. Wall, 2007, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 288 pages, AUS $49.95, (Paperback), ISBN 9780745627366
Information networks have brought us new sorts of crimes. We only have to look into our email inboxes. Scammers are luring us to follow links to fake websites, to give up our security codes and passwords or to download malicious software that enables criminals to hijack our computers.
Professor David S. Wall's book Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age is an exploration of the transformations that have taken place in criminal activity and its regulation as a result of networked technologies. Wall's central thesis is that cybercrime is not merely behaviour mediated by technology but also by social and legal values and economic drivers. Wall lists one of the social issues to be "social deskilling" where network members do not experience a holistic community experience. For...