Do digital networks make a difference to the scope, scale and severity of social harm? Considering four distinct digital affordances for crime (access, concealment, evasion and incitement) this book asks whether they are simply new packaging for old problems, with no greater effect on society overall - or is cyberculture significantly escalating illegality? Matthew David gives fresh insights into online harms and behaviours in the fields of hate, obscenity, corruptions of citizenship and appropriation, offering a comprehensive and integrated approach for those both new and experienced in the field of cybercrime.

Matthew David is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Durham. He is author of Science in Society, Peer to Peer and the Music Industry, Owning the World of Ideas (with Debbie Halbert), and Sharing: Crime Against Capitalism.