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Cybercrime and Digital Deviance, 2nd Edition
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Cybercrime and Digital Deviance, 2nd Edition

by Roderick S. Graham, 'Shawn K. Smith
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced
228 pages
8h 45m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 1 Understanding Cybercrime and Digital Deviance

DOI: 10.4324/9781003283256-1

Introduction

In this chapter, we introduce some core ideas and concepts that form the foundation for chapters to come. Most fundamentally, we define what we mean by cybercrime and digital deviance. Our definitions and explanations for these two phenomena are common across sociological and criminological texts. Next, we introduce the student to the notion of a “digital environment” and the layered technologies that produce that environment. We suspect the idea of layering will be unique to individuals not familiar with core ideas in the fields of computer science or computer-related disciplines. However, layering, once explained, helps the non-technologically ...

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