Explaining cybercrime in a highly networked world, this book provides a comprehensive yet accessible summary of the history, modern developments, and efforts to combat cybercrime in various forms at all levels of government—international, national, state, and local.

• Provides accessible, comprehensive coverage of a complex topic that encompasses identity theft to copyright infringement written for non-technical readers

• Pays due attention to important elements of cybercrime that have been largely ignored in the field, especially politics

• Supplies examinations of both the domestic and international efforts to combat cybercrime

• Serves an ideal text for first-year undergraduate students in criminal justice programs