Cybercrime and the Law: Challenges, Issues, and Outcomes

Author(s)

Susan W. Brenner, University of DaytonFollow

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

11-13-2012

Abstract

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.

Inclusive pages

1-15

ISBN/ISSN

9781555537999

Document Version

Published Version

Comments

A chapter of this document is made available for download with the permission of the publisher.

Permission documentation is on file.

Copyright

Copyright © 2012, Northeastern University

Publisher

Northeastern University Press

Place of Publication

Lebanon, NH

eCommons Citation

Brenner, Susan W., "Cybercrime and the Law: Challenges, Issues, and Outcomes" (2012). School of Law Faculty Publications. 108.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/law_fac_pub/108