Superhighway Robbery

by Newman; Graeme R.

• ISBN13: 9781843920182
• ISBN10: 1843920182
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-03-02
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

This book, written by two leading authorities in the field, provides a systematic application of concepts of situational crime prevention to internet and e-commerce crime, exploring ways in which concepts of crime prevention developed in other contexts can be fruitfully applied in this new environment. Their argument is that situational crime prevention works, and is ideally suited to proving the means of developing measures to combat rapidly growing e-commerce crime.Chapters in the book seek to identify the specific opportunities and transactions in which crime can occur in the e-commerce environment, and the different kinds of information which are crime targets - identified as intellectual property, intelligence, information systems and services of various kinds (banking, purchasing etc).Consumer products are also examined with a view to identifying the elements that make them particularly vulnerable to theft. In response a variety of techniques to counter e-commerce crime are identified, underpinned by seeking to increase the effort the criminal must make to carry out crime, increase the perceived risk of crime, reduce the anticipated rewards of crime, and remove excuses for the criminal.

Author Biography

Graeme R. Newman is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the School of Criminal Justice, University of Albany.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
1 Situational crime prevention in the information society	1	(25)
Situational crime prevention	7	(1)
Virtual situations?	8	(2)
Opportunity structure and social structure	10	(2)
Situational culture	12	(1)
Enduring qualities of situations	13	(1)
Situations as precipitators of crime	14	(2)
Overview of the book	16	(7)
A note on method	23	(1)
Notes	24	(2)
2 The e-commerce environment	26	(19)
The trust that binds	26	(1)
Precursors to e-commerce	27	(1)
Basic features of e-commerce	28	(4)
Customer identity	32	(1)
Monitoring, tracking and surveillance	33	(1)
Globalisation	34	(1)
Trust, again	34	(1)
The e-commerce value chain	35	(5)
The growth of e-commerce	40	(2)
Conclusion: it's information	42	(1)
Notes	43	(2)
3 E-commerce as the target of crime	45	(23)
Where is the money?	46	(1)
Types of information in the e-commerce environment	47	(1)
Ownership of information and criminal motivation	48	(1)
Where's the target?	49	(3)
Crimes of the information age	52	(9)
Criminogenic attributes of the computing environment	61	(3)
Notes	64	(4)
4 Information as a hot product	68	(10)
CRAVED information	70	(7)
Note	77	(1)
5 Risk analysis of online shopping	78	(32)
Methods of payment	79	(6)
The parties involved	85	(14)
Product delivery	99	(5)
Conclusions	104	(1)
Notes	105	(5)
6 Reducing opportunities for e-commerce crime	110	(35)
Increasing perceived effort	112	(11)
Increasing perceived risks	123	(5)
Reducing anticipated rewards	128	(4)
Removing excuses	132	(3)
Displacement	135	(1)
Conclusions	136	(3)
Notes	139	(6)
7 Policing e-commerce	145	(33)
Reducing credit card fraud: a case study	145	(15)
Mechanisms of control in the e-commerce environment	160	(1)
Sources of control in the e-commerce environment	161	(6)
Partnerships for crime control in the e-commerce environment	167	(6)
Conclusions	173	(1)
Notes	174	(4)
8 Situational prevention and the 'society of control'	178	(29)
Surveillance and privacy	179	(4)
The problem of identity	183	(6)
National ID cards	189	(3)
The slippery slope?	192	(2)
An ideology of control?	194	(6)
Situational prevention and criminology	200	(2)
Conclusions	202	(1)
Notes	203	(4)
References	207	(9)
Index	216