This book provides a comprehensive examination of cybercrime, cyber victimization, and justice in an increasingly digital world. Bringing together the fields of cyber criminology and cyber victimology, it explores how technological change has transformed criminal behavior, victimization, regulation, and social responses to harm. Drawing on decades of scholarship, the volume consolidates key theoretical developments while addressing emerging challenges posed by digital technologies and online environments.

Moving from foundational concepts to contemporary challenges, the book examines the distinctive characteristics of digital environments and their implications for criminal behavior and victim experiences. It explores the theoretical frameworks that have emerged to explain crime in cyberspace, with particular attention to space transition theory (STT) and its continuing relevance for understanding the relationship between online and offline behavior. The volume also considers how digital technologies are reshaping systems of accountability, governance, and justice, raising new questions about surveillance, regulation, platform responsibility, and victim protection.

By connecting theory, empirical case analysis, and contemporary policy concerns, the book demonstrates how cybercrime and cyber victimization must be understood within the broader social, technological, and transnational contexts in which they occur. It offers valuable insights for scholars, students, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand the changing nature of crime and justice in the digital age.

Professor K. Jaishankar, PhD, is currently the Principal Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya (Universiti Malaya), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Founder/Principal Director and Professor of Criminology & Justice Sciences at the International Institute of Justice & Police Sciences (IIJPS), Bengaluru, India. He is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Italy. Recognized as the founding father of Cyber Criminology (2007) and Cyber Victimology (2015), he pioneered the Space Transition Theory of Cybercrimes (2008). Ranked 16th among the Top 25 Influential Criminologists (2010–2020), he has been a Full Professor since 2016 and has over 29 years of experience in teaching, research, supervision, and academic leadership. He began his academic career at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli (2002–2016), serving as Lecturer, Senior Assistant Professor of Criminology, and Member of the University Syndicate. He subsequently served as Full Professor, Head of the Department of Criminology, and Dean at Raksha Shakti University (now Rashtriya Raksha University), India. He was a Commonwealth Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds (2009–2010). He founded the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV-2009) and the Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC-2009). His honours include the NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award (2012) and appointment as a UN Expert on Victims of Terrorism. He has authored 12 books with leading publishers, including Sage and Routledge, and published in journals such as the British Journal of Criminology. His expertise spans Criminology, Cybercrime, Victimology, Crime and Technology, GIS, Crime Mapping, and Policing.