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E-lemic: Routledge Critical Studies in Digital Crime, Culture and Control

About the Book Series

E-lemic explores radically new ways of interpreting digital offending and aims to situate such conduct firmly within its socio-cultural settings. Rather than restricting its focus to the ‘usual’ suspects in digital crime, titles published in this series aim to consider a far broader spectrum of harm and culpability, one where states, corporations, digital platforms and powerful new technological oligarchs like the ‘digirati’ are also implicated. It places equal weight upon the threats posed by digital control as those posed by digital crime with a special emphasis upon the culpabilities of digital technology in destabilizing civil society and bolstering authoritarianism.

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Platform Criminality and Post-Crime How Cybercrime (and Everything Else) Changed

Platform Criminality and Post-Crime: How Cybercrime (and Everything Else) Changed

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By M.R. McGuire
April 17, 2026

This book explores how digital crime/cybercrime has been decisively reshaped by the emergence of the digital platform. Online platforms now constitute so significant a mode of wealth production that many argue a new kind of economic order – ‘platform capitalism’ has emerged. But the platform ...

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