New Book
- Digital Grooming: Discourses of Manipulation and Cyber-Crime This book examines digital grooming as a discourse manipulation practice in digital spaces that are situated at, or beyond, the boundaries of law. It identifies and examines in detail the online discourse of adults’ luring of children for sexual abuse and exploitation (digital sexual grooming), extreme ideology groups’ aligning others to their views (digital ideological grooming), and drug dealers’ transactional endeavors in crypto markets (digital commercial grooming). Style and stance analyses of large and varied datasets reveal that digital sexual, ideological, and commercial groomers’ practices have more in common than not.
Related Guides
- Boston University Law Libraries, Computer Law, Cyberlaw & E-Commerce: Useful Resources Some of the resources on this guide [such as Westlaw] are restricted to the BU Law community.
About Cybercrime
This guide provides selected course-specific resources for MET CJ610 / MET CJ610 (Online): Cybercrime
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New Featured Report
- The Hidden Costs of Cybercrime Since 2018, we estimated that the cost of global cybercrime reached over $1 trillion. We estimated the monetary loss from cybercrime at approximately $945 billion. Added to this was global spending on cybersecurity, which was expected to exceed $145 billion in 2020. Today, this is $1 trillion dollar drag on the global economy.
Featured US House of Representatives Committee Hearing
- Cracking Down on Ransomware: Strategies for Disrupting Criminal Hackers and Building Resilience Against Cyber Threats The hearing will examine the competing pressures private sector companies—especially those serving critical public functions—and state and local governments face when confronting ransomware attacks, which often lead them to accede to attackers’ demands.
Librarian
This guide was originally authored by Chris Smith, April, 2023.