Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Polity (Outline of update)
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This license does not permit commercial exploitation or the creation of derivative works without specific permission. Information networks have brought us new sorts of crimes. We only have to look into our email inboxes. Scammers are luring us to follow links to fake websites, to give up our security codes and passwords or to download malicious software that enables criminals to hijack our computers. Wall's book Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age is an exploration of the transformations that have taken place in criminal activity and its regulation as a result of networked technologies. Wall's central thesis is that cyber crime is not merely behavior mediated by technology but also by social and legal values and economic drivers. Wall lists one of the social issues to be " social deskilling " where network members do not experience a holistic community experience. For instance, it is easier to steal a penny from millions of bank account owners using the Internet, than to rob a bank with a gun in a bank teller's face. The apparent " anonymity " of victim-offender relationships is a characteristic feature of this and all other forms of cyber crime. Wall acknowledges in the preface that the task of describing Cybercrime is hard as the subject matter changes rapidly. Nevertheless, three years after Wall finished his work it is still in many ways current. The fast pace of evolving cyber crime is not the only challenge researchers face. As Wall points out, discussion around cyber crime has been dominated by media and politicians who often act out of fear and without real knowledge of the nature and scale of the problem. This has often lead to the introduction of new legislation which has tried to satisfy the interests of corporate and State, while at the same time discussion of the principles of liberty and freedom of expression has been dampened. Wall raises the level of argument by providing a collection of relevant data and a scientific framework for his analysis of the phenomenon. Wall's approach is