Living With Hacktivism

Vasileios Karagiannopoulos is Senior Lecturer in Law and Cybercrime at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK.

“The book points out fundamental weaknesses in the legislative process through which many hacktivists have been convicted in the US and UK. This can make Karagiannopoulos’s work a valuable resource for social movement and collective action modules, as much as for criminology or terrorism courses. The messages communicated throughout the book should help readers, and especially legislators, come to grips with the normative intricacies of contested online practice and may incentivise further research on best-practice examples … .” (Leonie Maria Tanczer, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, August 31, 2018)

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Birth of Cyberspace and the Development of Hacktivism.- Chapter 2. The Two Eras of Hacktivism.- Chapter 3. Looking into the Positive and Negative Aspects of Hacktivism.- Chapter 4. Contemporary Norms and Law and Hacktivism.- Chapter 5. Enforcing Crime Control and Hacktivism.- Chapter 6. Moving from Conflict to Symbiosis.- Chapter 7. Final Conclusions.