Authors: Michael Newton, John L. French
ISBN-13: 9780816049783, ISBN-10: 0816049785
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Facts on File, Incorporated
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
With some 400 entries, this reference examines the crimes, criminals, and crime-fighting techniques resulting from modern high-tech innovations, covering everything from software pirates to airport security, cell phone fraud, identity theft, and designers drugs. Other topics are traditional crime and high-tech tools, satellite surveillance, computer viruses, and chemical and biological weapons. B&w photos are included. Newton has written other crime encyclopedias. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR