This comprehensive analysis of (integrity-related, content-related and computer-related) cyber crime - the first book off this kind in Slovenian language - covers the concept or definition, development, extent and frequency, types and ways to respond and fight against it. The author scrutinizes normative regulation relating to cyber crime adopted by the Council of Europe, European Union and national legislator. Repressive responses to cyber crime face numerous challenges, such as those related to jurisdiction over mos often "cross-border" criminal activities and to electronic evidence. The book also offers insight into digital investigative methods and techniques, such as the IMSI-catcher and forensic computer programs, and the existing mechanisms for international cooperation, e.g. "expedited data preservation". The last part of the monograph deals with several pressing issues related to cyber crime, such as digital currencies, dark net, the Deep Web, the "internet of things", intelligence snooping on the internet, and internet governance. The text includes also several case studies, graphs and chats illuminating specific topics of cyber crime.
COBISS.SI-ID: 280067072
The monograph deals mainly with institutional violence and its legitimization. It addresses various way of treating physical and psychological violence as a phenomenon that is taken for granted or as something that is not at all perceived and interpreted as a wrong or unacceptable kind of human behavior.
COBISS.SI-ID: 279167488
Once a state based on principles of fairness and equality (in line with Kant's republican constitution) is established, it faces the challenge of self-preservation. Addressing this issue Kant argued against relying on citizens' moral capacity as the main safeguarding force. Like many others he was convinced that men in a society become selfish and greedy. But he also believed that this disposition, if adopted by many, will eventually undermine itself. He proposed the existence of a mechanism that works against the conscious intentions of selfish individuals, a secret plan of nature that leads very slowly and ˝over many generations˝ to the overall reduction of greediness in a society. In the short and middle term however, such a state is structurally unstable. Author elaborates on this structural instability from from the point of view of Kant's secret plan of nature, from the point of view of the link between the quality of the state and the quality of the citizen and from the point of view of the secret exemption as the principal mechanism structurally undermining the rule of law. It turns out that the fate of two types of honest people - I distinguish between Kant's and Humes type - depends on the quality of the state. When things go wrong and the Kant's honest citizen cannot exit the state, only a high quality state can secure his survival. A high quality state also guarantees the second type ofhonest person - Humes type - the reciprocity that he or she needs in order to remain honest. In a low quality or 'failed' state Hurne's type will sooner or later start cheating on others and violating the law himself in order to survive, while the Kants type of honest person will perish.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4080584
Neo-liberal globalization has created a situation which is not only a crisis, but rather a catastrophe (imbued with corruption, violence, intimidation, blackmail and deception). The globalization has been accompanied by its own sort of war, officially declared on Islamic terrorists, ordinary criminals and "lazy bon vivants". In fact, there is another fight going on, namely the fight between the rich and the poor, between creditors and debtors, between capitalists and workers, between elites and plebeian masses. Consequently, criminology cannot be occupied solely by studying crime milled by class-biased criminal justice apparatus. It has to also critically confront the totalitarian capitalist system and its repressive and ideological mechanisms that extend its tormenting agony.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1794894
Modern punishment (at least) in Western societies generally pursues ideals of humanity, legality and equality. However, in practice, these principles are often overlooked and part from the trend of sharply increasing punitiveness, disparities are one of the most pervasive features of postmodern sentencing. Disparities arise from a variety of reasons. On the one hand, there are acceptable differences as a result of the expected individualization of punishment. On the other hand, there is intolerable discrimination based on a judge's malicious interests. Between the two extremes, there is a broad field of disparities resulting from the judge's prejudices and stereotypes, and disparities resulting from unconscious decision-making mechanisms in the human brain. All forms of wrongful disparities can be limited to a certain extent, but this necessarily requires that individual decision makers acknowledge their own fallibility.
COBISS.SI-ID: 14463825