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"""This work offers not only traditional criminological inquiries into cybercrime, but also an essential critical criminological examination which is sorely needed. These studies help to define new areas of inquiry for social scientists."" –Thomas Holt, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University ""Technocrime has quickly emerged as a major new category of crime, impacting millions and often dominating news reports. This important volume fills a major void in the literature by applying the leading crime theories to the explanation of varied forms of technocrime and pointing to directionsfor further research."" –Robert Agnew, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology, Emory University; Past President, American Society of Criminology"

This work offers not only traditional criminological inquiries into cybercrime, but also an essential critical criminological examination which is sorely needed. These studies help to define new areas of inquiry for social scientists. -Thomas Holt, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University Technocrime has quickly emerged as a major new category of crime, impacting millions and often dominating news reports. This important volume fills a major void in the literature by applying the leading crime theories to the explanation of varied forms of technocrime and pointing to directionsfor further research. -Robert Agnew, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology, Emory University; Past President, American Society of Criminology

This work offers not only traditional criminological inquiries into cybercrime, but also an essential critical criminological examination which is sorely needed. These studies help to define new areas of inquiry for social scientists. -Thomas Holt, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University Technocrime has quickly emerged as a major new category of crime, impacting millions and often dominating news reports. This important volume fills a major void in the literature by applying the leading crime theories to the explanation of varied forms of technocrime and pointing to directionsfor further research. -Robert Agnew, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology, Emory University; Past President, American Society of Criminology

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Kevin F. Steinmetz is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University. His areas of interest include technocrime, inequality in criminal justice, critical criminology, and media and crime issues. He has published articles in multiple peer-reviewed journal outlets including the British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, and Deviant Behavior. He is also the author of Hacked: A Radical Approach to Hacker Culture and Crime. Matt R. Nobles is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Doctoral Program in Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in criminology, law and society from the University of Florida in 2008 and joined UCF's faculty in 2015. Nobles' research interests include violence and interpersonal crimes, neighborhood social ecology, criminological theory testing, and quantitative methods. His recent work has appeared in outlets including Justice Quarterly, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Aggression and Violent Behavior, and the American Journal of Public Health.

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