Intro -- New Perspectives on Cybercrime -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I Law and Order in Cyberspace -- Neuro-Agency, Neuro-Ethics and Cybercrime -- Introduction -- The Neuroscience of Free Will -- Embodied Cognition -- Epigenetics -- Neuroscience, Culpability and the Law -- Concluding Observations -- References -- Biology and Cybercrime: Towards a Genetic-Social, Predictive Model of Cyber Violence -- Introduction -- Genetic-Social Framework -- Forms of Cyber Violence and Some Possible Explanations -- Building a Possibly Predictive Model of Cyber Violence -- Concluding Observations -- References -- Cyber Vigilantism - How the Cyber Mob Behaves -- Introduction -- False Accusation and the Presumption of Innocence -- Deviancy Amplification, Safe Spaces and Offence -- Trial by Twitter -- #Anonymous Is at War with #Daesh -- Vigilantism and the Paedophile Hunters -- Stinson Hunter - Paedophile Hunter -- Dark Justice -- Daemon Hunter Organisation: Public Against Paedos -- Letzgo Hunting: Covert Internet Investigations -- Paedophiles Unmasked -- Police Reaction -- TV Entertainment? -- To Catch a Predator -- Tatort Internet -- Truth and Fiction -- Conclusion -- Internet Links -- Bibliography -- Cyber Armies - The Growth of the Cyber Defence Industry -- Introduction -- Threats Online -- What Defences Do We Have? -- Growth Industry of Cyber Security as an Economically Significant Trend Within the Economy -- Cyber Defence and Territorial Boundaries, Who Are We Defending Against? -- Have We Become More Sensitised Towards Deviance Online? -- What Role Can the Individual Play in the Defence of the (Cyber) Realm? -- Panopticism, Are We All Being Watched? -- Cyberterrorism -- Terrorism and Surveillance -- Criminology and Cybercrime -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Part II Gender and Deviance in Cyberspace -- Cyber Grooming: How Biological Variables Reinforce Cognitive Distortion -- Introduction -- The History and Laws of Grooming -- The Development and Methodological Approach of Cyber Grooming -- Biological Variables and Cyber Grooming -- The Techniques of Neutralisation within Cyber Grooming -- Concluding Observations -- Bibliography -- Trolling, the Ugly Face of the Social Network -- Introduction -- Characteristics and Definition -- The Law and Trolling -- Online Anti-Social Behaviour -- Causal Probability -- Nietzsche - Resentiment and Nihilism -- A Confluence of Influences -- Justifications for Trolling -- Click Bait and Revenue -- Amusement -- Boredom -- Revenge -- Anonymity -- Techniques of Neutralisation -- Denial of Responsibility -- Denial of the Victim -- Denial of Harm -- Condemning the Condemners -- Appeal to Higher Loyalties -- Disinhibition -- Dissociative Anonymity -- Invisibility -- Asynchronicity -- Solipsistic Introjection -- Dissociative Imagination -- Minimising Authority -- Egoism -- Dark Tetrad of Personality Test -- Background and Circumstances -- Conclusion/Summary -- Useful links -- Bibliography -- Virtual Violence: Cyberspace, Misogyny and Online Abuse -- Introduction -- The Tangled Web We Weave: Unpicking the Threads, Making the Connections -- Gendered Divisions and Violence -- What's in a Name? The Damage Done by Discursive Manoeuvres -- Space and Place: The Gendered Constructions of Cyberspace -- Cyberia: The Cold Realities of Online Misogyny -- Framing the Problem -- 'Get Over It, It's Just the Internet' -- What Lies Beneath: Causes of Online Abuse -- Making Tolerable the Intolerable: Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity -- What Has the EU ever Done for Us? -- Conclusion -- References -- Silenced by Free Speech: How Cyberabuse Affects Debate and Democracy -- References.

Part III Identity and Cyberspace -- The Problem of 'Virtual Criminology' -- Introduction -- Genetic-Social Framework -- Virtual and Hybrid Criminologies -- Applying Insights from the Genetic-Social Framework and the Work of Heidegger -- Concluding Observations -- References -- Re-Thinking IPC - Should We Re-think Our Attitudes Towards Property and Ownership in the Wake of Internet I.P. Crime? -- Introduction -- What Is Property? -- Digital Rights Management -- What Is Ownership? -- Physical -- Legal -- Not for Resale -- All Rights Reserved -- No Unauthorised Hiring -- No Unauthorised Lending -- No Unauthorised Public Performance -- No Unauthorised Radio or TV Broadcast -- The Problems of DRM -- Reverse Engineering -- Exploiting the Analogue Hole -- Labelling Consumers -- Identity and Hegemony -- Techniques of Neutralisation -- (Re)Education and Licenses - New Ways of Thinking -- (Re)Education -- IP Licence -- Summary/Conclusion -- Internet Sources -- Bibliography -- The Challenges Posed by Scammers to Online Support Groups: The 'Deserving' and the 'Undeserving' Victims of Scams -- Trigeminal Neuralgia Support Groups Online -- Research Methods and Internet Research Ethics -- Romance Fraudsters -- Faking Illness for Financial Purposes and Munchausen by Internet -- 'Miracle Cures' and Counterfeit Drugs Online -- Research Findings: Gender Stereotyping -- Responsibilisation and Romance Scams -- References -- Something You Wish You Had Never Seen - Videos of Death &amp -- Murder on Facebook, You Tube and Other Media Platforms -- Introduction -- The Spectacle of the Scaffold -- The Purpose of Extreme Images -- Spreading Terror and Fear -- Promoting Political Agendas -- Causing Outrage to Consolidate Personal Beliefs -- A Polarising Effect -- Creating a Believable Fantasy -- Morbid Curiosity -- A Desensitising Effect? -- 'Like' Farming and Spamming.

The Recently Deceased -- Atrocities -- Self-Radicalisation -- Neuro-Agency -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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