Virtual Criminality: Old Wine in New Bottles?

Abstract

IT HAS become trite to suggest that the convergence of computing andcommunications has begun to change the way we live, and the way wecommit crime. Whether this will necessitate a revision of our philosophi-cal, historical and sociological assumptions, however, is another matter. One must beware of overgeneralization and hyperbole, which characterize a great deal of discourse on the digital age. In the pages that follow, I suggest that