Cyber Crime and the Victimization of Women: Laws, Rights and Regulations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781609608309)

While women benefit from using new digital and Internet technologies for self-expression, networking, and professional activities, cyber victimization remains an underexplored barrier to their participation. Women often outnumber men in surveys on cyber victimization. Cyber Crime and the Victimization of Women: Laws, Rights and Regulations is a unique and important contribution to the literature on cyber crime. It explores gendered dimensions of cyber crimes like adult bullying, cyber stalking, hacking, defamation, morphed pornographic images, and electronic blackmailing. These and other tactics designed to inflict intimidation, control, and other harms are frequently committed by perpetrators who, for many reasons, are unlikely to be identified or punished. Scholars, researchers, law makers, and ordinary women and their supporters will gain a better understanding of cyber victimization and discover how to improve responses to cyber crimes against women.

Author: Debarati Halder,K. Jaishankar
ISBN-10: 1609608305
ISBN-13: 9781609608309
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2011
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 11.20h x 8.60w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 130