Crime, Genes, Neuroscience and Cyberspace

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-52687-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4249 g

This book applies Owen’s unique genetic-social framework to the study of crime and criminal behaviour, with an emphasis on cybercrime. Moving beyond challenges which confront contemporary criminological theorizing such as: the stagnation of critical criminology, the relativistic nihilism of the ‘cultural turn’, posthumanism, and virtual criminology, the author codifies and ‘applies’ the latest version of the framework to the study of crime, both in and out of cyberspace. 
Drawing upon evolutionary psychology, behavioural genetics and the philosophy of Heidegger, he introduces new terms such as ‘Neuro-Agency’ and notions of Embodied Cognition into criminological theorizing. Adopting a soft compatibilist approach to free-will, and Realist ontology, Owen’s meta-theoretical focus provides a new direction for criminological theorizing, in particular in the direction of the conceptualization and prediction of cyber violence. Exciting and timely, this book willappeal to scholars and advanced students of criminology, law, sociology, social policy, psychology, philosophy, policing and forensic investigation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owen, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit Computerkriminalität & Hacking
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One. Introduction.- Chapter Two. Criminological and Social Theory: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape.- Chapter Three. Neuroscience and Cybercrime.- Chapter Four. Do We Need a ‘Virtual Criminology’?.- Chapter Five. Cyber Violence.- Chapter Six. Codification and Application of the Genetic-Social Framework.- Concluding Observations

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Tim Owen is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU] at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is the author of many articles, book chapters and books in criminology, sociology and social policy. Recent books include New Perspectives on Cybercrime, co-edited with Wayne Noble and Faye Speed (Palgrave, 2017).