Investigating Digital Crime

Investigating Digital Crimeis an accessible introduction to the relationship between the parallel growth of new digital technologies and their criminal exploitation. The book examines the reaction of the criminal justice system, both in terms of the general legislative context but also from the perspective of law enforcement, and provides a clear account of the different forms of digital crime. In order to enhance student understanding, this book includes a detailed description and analysis of digital crimes such as smart card crime, cyber crimes and telecommunication crimes in relation to a number of theoretical perspectives. The book clearly identifies the relationship between developments in digital technologies and changes in criminal behaviour.Numerous case studies are provided throughout, with examples from the UK, other European nations and the US illustrating both the theoretical perspectives offered and the associated investigative context. Opening with an introduction to the challenges of new technology crime and background to the phenomena, the book then moves on to discuss the legislative context, for example, the interception of email and its use as evidence in court. The latter half of the book examines a range of new technology crimes, from the illegal modification of games consoles and mobile phones, through to new forms of identity theft, card crime and the use of new technology by sex offenders. Covers a broad range of digital crime from IPR crime through to identity theft, telecommunications and card crime Written by leading researchers, teachers and practitioners in the field Offers a theoretical understanding and explanation of new technology crime and clearly describes and analyses the investigative and legislative context Includes numerous global case studies throughout to illustrate the theory in practice and to appeal to an international audience

Robin Phillip Bryant, Head of Department of Crime and Policing Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU), UK.

Preface	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
The Challenge of Digital Crime	p. 1
Technology and crime	p. 1
Analogue and digital	p. 11
The growth of digital technologies	p. 14
Key features of digital crime	p. 17
Growth and development of digital crime	p. 20
A new criminology?	p. 23
Questions	p. 24
References	p. 24
The Legislative Context for Digital Crime	p. 27
International initiatives to combat digital crime	p. 28
Legal initiatives in the UK to combat digital crime	p. 33
Questions	p. 46
References	p. 47
Investigating Digital Crime	p. 49
Digital evidence	p. 52
How a digital device becomes involved in a crime	p. 54
Forensic examination in practice	p. 59
Professional accreditation	p. 64
Digital evidence in the courts	p. 71
Ethical issues	p. 74
Professional development for digital forensics	p. 75
Questions	p. 75
References	p. 76
Countering Cybercrime	p. 79
Recognising digital crime as something new	p. 79
The inadequacy of existing law	p. 81
What is cybercrime?	p. 83
Legislation and law enforcement	p. 85
Challenges	p. 87
Individual responsibilities	p. 88
Questions	p. 93
References	p. 93
Encryption	p. 97
Keys and passwords	p. 98
Encrypted hard drives	p. 104
Email encryption	p. 110
VoIP	p. 111
Wireless local area networks	p. 113
Encryption and investigation	p. 116
Questions	p. 117
References	p. 118
IPR and Technological Protection Measures	p. 121
Copyright	p. 122
IPR in practice	p. 124
Open source alternatives	p. 129
Questions	p. 129
References	p. 130
Plastic Card Crime	p. 133
Plastic cards	p. 133
Card crime	p. 141
Investigating card crime	p. 148
Questions	p. 149
References	p. 150
Telecommunications Fraud	p. 153
Telecommunication systems and services	p. 154
Telecommunications crime	p. 159
The Convention on Cybercrime	p. 168
Telecommunications investigations	p. 171
Questions	p. 175
References	p. 176
Identity and Identity Theft	p. 179
Concepts of identity	p. 180
Recognition and recognisability	p. 180
Authority and authorisation	p. 182
Recognition and authority in the digital world	p. 182
Obtaining information through social engineering	p. 184
ID Fraud in practice	p. 189
Investigating identity theft	p. 191
Questions	p. 193
References	p. 193
Internet Grooming and Paedophile Crimes	p. 195
Pre-digital paedophile crime	p. 196
The internet and paedophile crimes	p. 196
A brief history	p. 197
Recent initiatives to combat internet child pornography	p. 200
The internet grooming process	p. 200
Questions	p. 207
References	p. 208
Digitalisation and Crime	p. 211
Mobile phones	p. 212
Games consoles	p. 216
Money laundering	p. 218
Pharmaceutical drugs	p. 222
Questions	p. 228
References	p. 229
Criminological and Motivational Perspectives	p. 231
Criminological perspectives	p. 231
Motivational perspectives	p. 240
Cyberprofiling	p. 241
Questions	p. 246
References	p. 247
Index	p. 249
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