Blackstone's Handbook of Cyber Crime Investigation

This authoritative Handbook provides a clear and detailed introduction to cyber crime, offering you an effective operational guide to the complexities and challenges of investigating cyber-related crimes.

Written by a team of cyber crime experts, this unique book provides all police practitioners and partners with an operational reference and resource addressing all manner of cyber crime threats, including online anti-social behavior, hate crime, organized cyber crime, fraud, online child exploitation, and cyber terrorism and the terrorist use of the Internet. Presented in three main parts, Part 1 offers an overview of the different types of cyber crime along with explanations of the national structures and strategies in place to combat them, as well as case studies and scenarios. Part 2 offers practical guidance on the different categories of cyber crime and features contributions from organizations such as the National Crime Agency, and Part 3 covers the key legislation, police powers and points to prove relevant to each key category of offending and is written by the Police National Legal Database. All sections in Part 3 are accompanied by explanatory notes and related case law, ensuring quick and clear translation of cyber crime powers and provisions.

Concise and accessible, this book is an ideal reference and resource for all operational police officers, the extended police family and partners working to keep communities safe from the online phenomenon of cyber crime.

Andrew Staniforth, North East Counter Terrorism Unit, West Yorkshire Police,Police National Legal Database (PNLD)

Dr Andrew Staniforth is a serving police Detective Inspector and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organized Crime Research (CENTRIC). A qualified teacher and former Special Branch detective and counter-terrorism practitioner, he is the author of the Blackstone's Counter-Terrorism Handbook (2013),Blackstone's Handbook of Ports & Border Security (2013) and Blackstone's Practical Policing: Preventing Terrorism and Violent Extremism (2014). He also leads the Law Enforcement Agency aspects of project COURAGE, a two-year multi-agency European Commission security research project, designed to establish a cyber crime and cyber terrorism research agenda in 2015 for the European Commission Research Executive Agency.

The Police National Legal Database (PNLD) is a comprehensive legal database covering all legal information that police officers are required to know. It is housed within West Yorkshire Police Training School at Bishopsgarth in Wakefield and is the official online legal database used by the 43 police forces in England & Wales.