This edited collection presents current research dealing with crime involving information and communications technologies in the months immediately before, during and following the coronavirus pandemic since 2019. Information and communications technologies played a pivotal role during the pandemic in communicating information across the globe on the risks and responses to the pandemic but also in providing opportunities for various forms of illegality. This volume describes the nature and extent of such illegality, its connection to the pandemic and how digital technologies can assist in solving not only the health crisis but also the associated crime problems. The contributors are established academic scholars and policy practitioners in the fields of cybercrime and computer forensics. This book provides a ready source of content including technological solutions to cybercrime, legal and legislative responses, crime prevention initiatives and policy discussions dealing with the most critical issues present during and following the pandemic.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Crime in the post-pandemic digital age.-
Chapter 2: Pandemics and illegal manipulation of digital technologies:
Examining cause and effect in a time of COVID-19.
Chapter 3: Pandemics and
fraud: Learning from the coronavirus pandemic and its antecedents.
Chapter
4: The human element of online consumer scams arising from the coronavirus
pandemic.
Chapter 5: State-sponsored economic espionage in cyberspace: Risks
and preparedness during and after the pandemic.
Chapter 6: Virtual
kidnapping: Online scams with Asian characteristics during the pandemic.-
Chapter 7: Lessons in a time of pestilence. The relevance of international
cybercrime conventions to controlling post-pandemic cybercrime.
Chapter 8:
Domestic laws governing post-pandemic crime and criminal justice.
Chapter 9:
Perspectives on policing post-pandemic cybercrime.
Chapter 10: Digital
criminal courts: The place or space of (post-)pandemic justice.
Chapter 11:
Online messaging as a cybercrimeprevention tool in the post-pandemic age.-
Chapter 12: Artificial intelligence, COVID-19, and crime: Charting the
origins and expansion of dystopian and utopian narratives.
Chapter 13:
Conclusions: Minimising crime risks in pandemics of the future.
Russell G Smith is Professor in the College of Business, Government and Law at Flinders University, South Australia.
Rick Sarre is Emeritus Professor and Adjunct in Justice and Society at the University of South Australia.
Lennon Yao-Chung Chang is Associate Professor in Cyber Risk and Policy at Deakin University, Australia.
Laurie Lau is Chairman at the Asia Pacific Association of Technology and Society, Hong Kong.
