Teenage kicks or virtual villainy? Internet piracy, moral entrepreneurship, and the social construction of a crime problem

Crime Online

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 95-108

  Yar, Majid ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84920760157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781843925828     Document Type: Chapter

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