Against Cybercrime: Toward a Realist Criminology of Computer Crime

This book advances a theoretically informed realist criminology of computer crime. Looking beyond current strategies of online crime control, this book argues for a new sort of policy that addresses the root causes of computer crime and criminality, reduces the harms experienced by the victims of such crimes, and does not unduly contribute to state and corporate power and surveillance.

Drawing both on the proponents of realist criminology and on those who have leveled critiques of the approach, Steinmetz illustrates the contours of a realist criminology of computer crime by considering definitions of harm with online crime, the idiosyncrasies of online locality and community, the social relations of computer crime, the tension between piecemeal reform and structural changes, and other matters. Furthermore, Steinmetz surveys the methodological dimensions of computer crime research, offers a critique of positivist "computational criminology," and posits an agenda for computer crime policy.

Against Cybercrime is an essential reading for all those engaged with cybercrime, realist criminology, criminological theory, and social harm online.

這本書提出了一種理論基礎的現實主義犯罪學觀點，探討了電腦犯罪的問題。超越目前的網絡犯罪控制策略，本書主張採取一種新的政策，解決電腦犯罪和犯罪行為的根本原因，減少受害者所遭受的傷害，並不過度增加國家和企業的權力和監控。

斯坦梅茨（Steinmetz）既參考了現實主義犯罪學的支持者，也考慮了對這一方法的批評，通過考慮網絡犯罪的傷害定義、網絡地域和社區的特殊性、電腦犯罪的社會關係、片面改革和結構性變革之間的張力等問題，勾勒出了一種現實主義犯罪學的電腦犯罪論述。此外，斯坦梅茨還對電腦犯罪研究的方法論進行了概述，批評了實證主義的“計算犯罪學”，並提出了電腦犯罪政策的議程。

《對抗網絡犯罪》是所有從事網絡犯罪、現實主義犯罪學、犯罪學理論和網絡社會傷害的人必讀之書。

Kevin F. Steinmetz is Professor at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Kansas State University, USA.

Kevin F. Steinmetz 是美國堪薩斯州立大學社會學、人類學和社會工作系的教授。