Table of Contents

Preface; Acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Dimensions of economic espionage and the criminalization of trade secret theft; 2. Transition to an information society - increasing interconnections and interdependence; 3. International dimensions of business and commerce; 4. Competitiveness and legal collection versus espionage and economic crime; 5. Tensions between security and openness; 6. The new rule for keeping secrets - the Economic Espionage Act; 7. Multinational conspiracy or natural evolution of market economy; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; References; Index.

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An analytic assessment of the changing nature of crime in the burgeoning information society, first published in 2005.

Reviews

"We criminologists and academic criminal lawyers have been slow to turn our attention to non-traditional crimes and criminals, thereby missing extraordinarily important developments. Hedieh N asheri has given us a wake up call. Her work on theft of intellectual property should be incorporated into our courses and research agendas." James. B. Jacobs, Warren E. Burger Professor of Law, NYU School of Law