The Criminal Mind in the Age of Globalization

Acknowledgement Introduction CHAPTER ONE Cybercrime, Identity Theft and Identity Fraud Typology of Crimes; The Changing Character of Crime in Africa; The Modus Operandi of Cybercriminals; Categorization and Profiling of Cyber Criminals; Theoretical Analysis; Challenges of Criminal Investigations; A Review of Best Practices For Developing Countries CHAPTER TWO Deviance in the Cyber Age Social Media and Deviance; Landscape of social media and deviant behavior; Cyber election interference in U.S; The press as a model of construct and destabilization: the Cameroon example; The French and Danish examples; Cyber deviance in the music industry; Sexual deviance on social media; Cyberbullying on social media; Theoretical analysis of the freshman suicide case; Sanctions and severity of social networking sites; Facebook as case study CHAPTER THREE Biometric System and Digital Forensics; Biometric Classification; Biometric Patterns For Organizations; Biometric Strategy For States; Forensics Investigation And Biometrics; Theoretical Framework of Forensic investigation; Emerging trends of cybercrime and identity theft Cybercriminal pattern through mobile money; Scholarship Scam; Non-governmental organizations; A new paradigm for cybercriminals; Financial crime and identity theft CHAPTER FOUR Prostitution and Cyber Insecurity in Cameroon; Cyber Insecurity Scenery; The Role of Prostitutes in Cyber criminality in Cameroon; Hacking of accounts and skimming; Mobile Money Accounts (MMA); An examination of financial crimes in Nigeria; Drug, offensive content and harassment CHAPTER FIVE Cyber Terrorism, Cyberattack and Radicalism; Cyberterrorism Theory; The Globalization Era; Challenges involved in combating cybercrime and terrorist activities; Terrorist Financing; The Internet as an Open Source Information Tool for Terrorist Attacks; Identity & Attribution References Index