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This fascinating and timely book traces the emergence and evolution of cybercrime as an increasingly intransigent threat to society.

Cybercrime: Criminal Threats from Cyberspace is intended to explain two things: what cybercrime is and why the average citizen should care about it. To accomplish that task, the book offers an overview of cybercrime and an in-depth discussion of the legal and policy issues surrounding it.

Enhancing her narrative with real-life stories, author Susan W. Brenner traces the rise of cybercrime from mainframe computer hacking in the 1950s to the organized, professional, and often transnational cybercrime that has become the norm in the 21st century. She explains the many different types of computer-facilitated crime, including identity theft, stalking, extortion, and the use of viruses and worms to damage computers, and outlines and analyzes the challenges cybercrime poses for law enforcement officers at the national and international levels. Finally, she considers the inherent tension between improving law enforcement's ability to pursue cybercriminals and protecting the privacy of U.S. citizens.

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• Series Foreword(p. vii)
• Chapter 1 Twenty-First Century Twilight Zone: Stalking a Town(p. 1)
• Chapter 2 From Mainframes to Metaverse: The Origins and Evolution of Cybercrime(p. 9)
• Chapter 3 Three Categories of Cybercrime(p. 39)
• Chapter 4 Target Cybercrimes: Hacking, Malware, and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks(p. 49)
• Chapter 5 Tool Cybercrimes: Fraud, Harassment ... Murder?(p. 73)
• Chapter 6 Cyber-CSI: Computer Crime Scene(p. 103)
• Chapter 7 Beyond War Games: Who Are the Cybercriminals?(p. 121)
• Chapter 8 Cyber-Law and Order: Investigating and Prosecuting Cybercrime(p. 135)
• Chapter 9 U.S. Law Enforcement: Agencies and Challenges(p. 149)
• Chapter 10 Global Law Enforcement: Few Agencies, Even More Challenges(p. 163)
• Chapter 11 Privacy versus Security: Which Trumps?(p. 177)
• Chapter 12 New Ways to Fight Cybercrime(p. 207)
• Notes(p. 221)
• Index(p. 271)

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CHOICE Review

Brenner (law and technology, Univ. of Dayton School of Law) has written an exceptionally clear, well-organized account of the expansion of cybercrime from the playful hackers and "phone phreaks" of the mainframe era to today's sophisticated cross-national criminal operations. Contemporary cybercriminals are constantly developing new twists on traditional crimes--theft, fraud, embezzlement, defamation, gambling, terrorism, dissemination of pornography, copyright violation, stalking, harassment, extortion, blackmail, even homicide--while also inventing new wrongs such as denial-of-service attacks employing networks of zombie computers. Brenner does an excellent job of explaining the difficulties of deterring (and punishing) crimes that may be launched anonymously from another continent against thousands of targets simultaneously. Computer-savvy law enforcement personnel must be recruited, trained, and equipped with more sophisticated legal remedies to counter these creative wrongdoers. The international community has been slow to respond to this crime wave, and US courts are still weighing legal dilemmas such as how the Bill of Rights applies to cyberspace prosecutions. Brenner proposes a new crime of "imposture" to respond to the false online identities that cybercriminals frequently use. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. T. H. Koenig Northeastern University

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Susan W. Brenner is the NCR Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Dayton School of Law, Dayton, OH.