The following are books1 on digital crime or control. The list is not comprehensive but curated. Every book on the list emphasizes social science. Also, all are published by a university press, national press, or publishing house and not for an exorbitant amount.2 Many are open access. After each book is “Learn more,” which links to its webpage on its publisher’s website. When a book is open access, this is advertised as “Learn more + open access.” There are links to e-versions available via the GSU library (if not available as open access), though not all books are available that way. If you need help obtaining a book via the GSU library, please contact it for help; contact info is on this page.
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Brenner, Susan W. 2012. Cybercrime and the Law: Challenges, Issues, and Outcomes. Northeastern University Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Gehl, Robert W. 2018. Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P. MIT Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Lusthaus, Jonathan. 2018. Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime. Harvard University Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Martin, James. 2014. Drugs on the Dark Net: How Cryptomarkets are Transforming the Global Trade in Illicit Drugs. Palgrave Macmillan. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Russell, Alison Lawlor. 2014. Cyber Blockades. Georgetown University Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Wolff, Josephine. 2018. You’ll See this Message When It’s Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches. MIT Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Buchanan, Ben. 2020. The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics. Harvard University Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Follis, Luca, and Adam Fish. 2020. Hacker States. MIT Press. (Learn more.)[Available via GSU library; click here.]
Steinmetz, Kevin F. 2016. Hacked: A Radical Approach to Hacker Culture and Crime. NYU Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Webb, Maureen. 2020. Coding Democracy: How Hackers are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism. MIT Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Choose any book from Sections 1 and 2 that you did not already read.
Deibert, Ronald, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (eds.). 2010. Access Contested: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace. MIT Press. (Learn more + open access.)
Ferguson, Andrew Guthrie. 2017. The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement. NYU Press. (Learn more.)[Available via GSU library; click here.]
National Research Council. 2014. At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Some Basic Concepts and Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. (Learn more + open access.)
Shrobe, Howard, David L. Shrier, and Alex Pentland (eds.). 2018. New Solutions for Cybersecurity. MIT Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Singer, P. W., and Allan Friedman. 2014. Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Biegel, Stuart. 2011. Beyond Our Control? Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace. MIT Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Milosevic, Tijana. 2018. Protecting Children Online? Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies. MIT Press. (Learn more + open access.)
National Academy of Engineering. 2019. Privacy and Security in the 21st Century: Who Knows and Who Controls?: Proceedings of a Forum. The National Academies Press. (Learn more + open access.)
Roscini, Marco. 2014. Cyber Operations and the Use of Force in International Law. Oxford University Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Tusikov, Natasha. 2017. Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet. University of California Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Choose any book from Sections 4 and 5 that you did not already read.
Balkin, Jack, James Grimmelmann, Eddan Katz, Nimrod Kozlovski, Shlomit Wagman, and Tal Zarsky (eds.). 2007. Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment. NYU Press. (Learn more.)
Bartlett, Jamie. 2015. The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld. Melville House. (Learn more.)
Beckstrom, Matthew, and Brady Lund. 2019. Casting Light on the Dark Web: A Guide for Safe Exploration. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library, by Fall 2021.]
Brayne, Sarah. 2020. Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing. Oxford University Press. (Learn more.)
Brown, Ian, and Christopher T. Marsden. 2013. Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age. MIT Press. (Learn more.)
Brunton, Finn. 2019. Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Built Cryptocurrency. Princeton University Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin. 2020. The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance. MIT Press. (Learn more + open access.)
Clough, Jonathan. 2015. Principles of Cybercrime (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. (Learn more.)
Deibert, Ronald, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (eds.). 2008. Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering. MIT Press. (Learn more + open access.)
Deibert, Ronald, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (eds.). 2008. Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cybersecurity. MIT Press. (Learn more + open access.)
DeNardis, Laura, Derrick Cogburn, Nanette S. Levinson, and Francesca Musiani (eds.). 2020. Researching Internet Governance: Methods, Frameworks, Futures. MIT Press. (Learn more + open access.)
Drake, William J., and Ernest J. Wilson, III (eds.). 2008. Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power. MIT Press. (Learn more.)[Available via GSU library; click here.]
Hidalgo, César A., Diana Orghiain, Jordi Albo Canals, Filipa de Almeida, and Natalia Martin. 2021. How Humans Judge Machines. MIT Press. (Learn more + open access.)
Karaganis, Joe. 2018. Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education. MIT Press. (Learn more + open access.)
Jørgensen, Rikke Frank. 2006. Human Rights in the Age of Platforms. MIT Press. (Learn more + open access.)
Mueller, Milton L. 2010. Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance. MIT Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Noble, Safiya Umoja. 2018. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. NYU Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Postigo, Hector. 2012. The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright. MIT Press. (Learn more + open access.)
Reagle, Joseph M., Jr. 2015. Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web. (Learn more + open access.)
Rogers, Richard. 2013. Digital Methods. MIT Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Shelley, Louise I. 2018. Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future. Princeton University Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library, click here.]
Smith, Russell G., Peter N. Grabosky, and Gregor Urbas. 2004. Cyber Criminals on Trial. Cambridge University Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
Trottier, Daniel, Rashid Gabdulhakov, and Qian Huang. 2020. Introducing Vigilant Audiences. Open Book Publishers. (Learn more + open access.)
Wark, McKenzie. 2004. A Hacker Manifesto. Harvard University Press. (Learn more.) [Available via GSU library; click here.]
White, Geoff. 2020. Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global. Reaktion Books. (Learn more.)