Superhighway Robbery (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

Written by two leading authorities in the field, this book provides a systematic application of concepts of situational crime prevention to internet and e-commerce crime. The book argues 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 identify the specific opportunities and transactions in which crime can occur in the e-commerce environment. 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, to increase the perceived risk of crime, to reduce the anticipated rewards of crime, and to remove excuses for the criminal. ... Contents: Preface; Situational crime prevention in the information society: Situational crime prevention - Virtual situations - Opportunity structure and social structure - Situational culture - Enduring qualities of situations - Situations as pre