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Preface. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1: Cybercrime and the Internet: An Introduction Perceptions of Cybercrime; Cybercrime: Questions and Answers; A Brief History and Analysis of the Internet; Defining and Classifying Cybercrime; What's ‘New’ about Cybercrime?; How Many Crimes? Assessing the Scale of Internet Offences; Challenges for Criminology, Criminal Justice and Policing; Summary. Chapter 2: Hackers, Crackers and Viral Coders; Hackers and Hacking – Contested Definitions; Representations of Hackers and Hacking: Technological Fears and Fantasies; What Hackers Actually Do: A Brief Guide for the Technologically Bewildered; Hacker Myths and Realities: Wizards or Button-Pushers?; Why Do They Do it?’ Motivation, Psychology, Gender and Youth; Hacking and the Law: Legislative Innovations and Responses. Chapter 3: Political Hacking: From Hacktivism to Cyberterrorism; Introduction; Hacktivism and the Politics of Resistance in a Globalised World; The Spectre of Cyberterrorism; Why Cyber-Terror? Terrorist Advantages of Utilizing Internet Attacks; Rhetorics and Myths of Cyberterrorism; Alternative Conjunctions between Terrorism and the Internet. Chapter 4: Virtual ‘Pirates’: Intellectual Property Theft Online; Introduction; Intellectual Property, Copyright and ‘Piracy’: A Brief Guide for the Bewildered; Scope and Scale of ‘Piracy’ Activity; Explaining the Growth of Internet ‘Piracy’; Who are the ‘Pirates’?; The Development of ‘Anti-Piracy’ Initiatives; Thinking Critically about ‘Piracy’ Statistics; Thinking Critically about Intellectual Property Rights; Summary. Chapter 5: Cyber-Frauds, Scams and Cons; Introduction; Scope and Scale of Online Fraud; Varieties of Online Fraud; Online Fraud: Perpetrators' Advantages and Criminal Justice's Problems; Strategies for Policing and Combating Internet Frauds; Summary. Chapter 6: Illegal, Harmful and Offensive Content Online: From Hate Speech to Child; Pornography; Introduction; Thinking about ‘Hate Speech’ Online; Hate Speech Online; Legal, Policing and Political Challenges in Tackling Online Hate Speech; The Growth and Popularity of Internet Pornography; Criminological Issues Relating to Internet Pornography; Child Pornography; Legislative and Policing Measures to Combat Online Child Pornography; Legal and Policing Challenges in Tackling Child Pornography; Chapter 7: The Victimization of Individuals Online: Cyberstalking and Paedophilia; Introduction; The Emergence of Stalking as a Crime Problem; Cyberstalking; Online Paedophilia; Thinking Critically about Online Victimization: Stalking and Paedophilia as Moral Panics?; Chapter 8: Cybercrimes and Cyberliberties: Surveillance, Privacy and Crime Control; Introduction; From Surveillance to Dataveillance: The Rise of the Electronic Web; The Development of Internet Surveillance; The Dilemmas of Surveillance as Crime Control: The Case of Encryption; Bibliography; Index.