The exponential increase in cybercrimes in the past decade has raised new issues and challenges for law and law enforcement. Based on case studies drawn from her work as a lawyer, Susan W. Brenner identifies a diverse range of cybercrimes, including crimes that target computers (viruses, worms, Trojan horse programs, malware and DDoS attacks) and crimes in which the computer itself is used as a tool (cyberstalking, cyberextortion, cybertheft, and embezzlement). Illuminating legal issues unique to investigations in a digital environment, Brenner examines both national law enforcement agencies and transnational crime, and shows how cyberspace erodes the functional and empirical differences that have long distinguished crime from terrorism and both from warfare.
- ISBN10 1555537987
- ISBN13 9781555537982
- Publish Date 13 November 2012 (first published 8 October 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 June 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northeastern University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English