Review: The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law

Review: The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law

  Over the holidays I received a review copy of Nathaniel Burney’s The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law, an outgrowth from his popular LawComic.net. Having enjoyed seeing the progress of the comic over the past year online, I was eager to get the book in...
Criminal Activity and Your IP Address

Criminal Activity and Your IP Address

  This week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) brought news about criminal investigations in relation to an individual computer’s IP address. First, some background. IP and TOR For the unaware, an Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label...
Flash Mob Riots: Crime in the Age of Twitter

Flash Mob Riots: Crime in the Age of Twitter

Crime, in the age of Twitter, comes to appear as a form of cartel – that needs busting. – Will Davies, Research Fellow at Oxford University, in reference to the on-going riots in London. Much has already been written about the role of social media in the...