Cybercrime in progress : theory and prevention of technology-enabled offenses / Thomas J. Holt and Adam M. Bossler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technology and cybercrime -- Issues in empirical assessments of cybercrime -- Applications of criminological theory to cybercrimes -- Issues in domestic and transnational cybercrime investigation -- Issues in the prevention of cybercrime -- The future of cybercrime and digital forensic research.

"The emergence of the World Wide Web, smartphones, and computers has transformed the world and enabled individuals to engage in crimes in a multitude of new ways. Criminological scholarship on these issues has increased dramatically over the last decade, as have studies on ways to prevent and police these offenses. This book is one of the first texts to provide a comprehensive review of research regarding cybercrime, policing and enforcing these offenses, and the prevention of various offenses as global change and technology adoption increases the risk of victimization around the world. Drawing on a wide range of literature, Holt and Bossler offer an extensive synthesis of numerous contemporary topics such as theories used to account for cybercrime, policing in domestic and transnational contexts, cybercrime victimization and issues in cybercrime prevention. The findings provide a roadmap for future research in cybercrime, policing, and technology, and discuss key controversies in the existing research literature in a way that is otherwise absent from textbooks and general cybercrime readers."--Provided by Publisher.