Hypercrime: The New Geometry of Harm

by Michael McGuire

Book Overview

Hypercrime develops a new theoretical approach toward current reformulations in criminal behaviours, in particular the phenomenon of cybercrime. Emphasizing a spatialized conception of deviance, one that clarifies the continuities between crime in the traditional, physical context and developing spaces of interaction such as a 'cyberspace', this book analyzes criminal behaviours in terms of the destructions, degradations or incursions to a hierarchy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904385931
• ISBN13: 9781904385936
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"