Crime on the Internet: Its Presentation and Representation
Jon Spencer · The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice · 1999
Abstract: The internet is a rapidly expanding communication medium. It has generated considerable anxiety in relation to what is perceived as the easy availability of pornography and other sexually explicit material. There is a considerable amount of police-based internet activity which constructs crime in particular ways. This article explores the way in which crime is constructed on the internet through police pages and goes on to highlight some of the questions which this raises for criminology .