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The fusion between virtuality and reality has created a new quality of experience establishing metaverses and virtual worlds. Second Life, Twinity, Entropia Universe or Fregger have experienced rapid growth in recent years and show no signs of slowing down. Not only have countless companies discovered these “virtureal worlds” as marketplaces, but so have fraudsters and other criminals. In this book, European experts from different academic disciplines show how to meet the new challenges arising from virtual worlds. They discuss the reasons for and the impacts of these new forms of criminality as well as the necessity and means of combating them. Moreover, other fundamental issues are examined, such as the addictive potential of virtual-world use, media violence, and conflict resolution problems arising in the context of virtual worlds.

Computer crimes --- Virtual reality --- Shared virtual environments --- Internet --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Law, Politics & Government --- Social Sciences --- Law, General & Comparative --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Social aspects --- Computer crimes. --- Shared virtual environments. --- Social aspects. --- Immersive virtual environments --- IVEs (Immersive virtual environments) --- Multi-user distributed virtual environments --- Multi-user virtual environments --- MUVEs (Multi-user virtual environments) --- Shared VEs (Shared virtual environments) --- SVEs (Shared virtual environments) --- Computers and crime --- Cyber crimes --- Cybercrimes --- Electronic crimes (Computer crimes) --- Internet crimes --- Law. --- Criminal law. --- Mediation. --- Dispute resolution (Law). --- Conflict management. --- International law. --- Communication. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Criminal Law. --- Criminology and Criminal Justice, general. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Communication Studies. --- European Law. --- Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration. --- Crime --- Privacy, Right of --- Criminology. --- Consciousness. --- Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law. --- Conflict control --- Conflict resolution --- Dispute settlement --- Management of conflict --- Managing conflict --- Management --- Negotiation --- Problem solving --- Social conflict --- Crisis management --- Good offices (Mediation) --- Mediation --- Conflict management --- Dispute resolution (Law) --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self --- ADR (Dispute resolution) --- Alternative dispute resolution --- Appropriate dispute resolution --- Collaborative law --- Dispute processing --- Justice, Administration of --- Neighborhood justice centers --- Third parties (Law) --- Social sciences --- Criminals --- Crimes and misdemeanors --- Law, Criminal --- Penal codes --- Penal law --- Pleas of the crown --- Public law --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal procedure --- Law and legislation --- Study and teaching --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law—Europe. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science

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Catholic Church. --- History. --- Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) --- Sweden --- Foreign relations

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The fusion between virtuality and reality has created a new quality of experience establishing metaverses and virtual worlds. Second Life, Twinity, Entropia Universe or Fregger have experienced rapid growth in recent years and show no signs of slowing down. Not only have countless companies discovered these virtureal worlds  as marketplaces, but so have fraudsters and other criminals. In this book, European experts from different academic disciplines show how to meet the new challenges arising from virtual worlds. They discuss the reasons for and the impacts of these new forms of criminality as well as the necessity and means of combating them. Moreover, other fundamental issues are examined, such as the addictive potential of virtual-world use, media violence, and conflict resolution problems arising in the context of virtual worlds.

Cognitive psychology --- Criminology. Victimology --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- strafrecht --- cognitieve psychologie --- criminologie

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This book presents the results of an international comparative study on the causes of rule deviation in business and medical organizations. Based on document and interview analyses as well as experiments, the discrepancy between (state) regulations and organizational practice is elaborated and discussed in an interdisciplinary perspective. On the basis of the distinction between organizational and individual deviance, it could be shown across national boundaries that the unwritten rules of the organization make a decisive contribution in explaining organizational wrongdoing, as well as their containment. Implications for effective prevention derived from this are also pointed out. The Editors Prof. Dr. Markus Pohlmann is Professor of Sociology at the Max-Weber-Institute for Sociology at Heidelberg University. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gerhard Dannecker is Senior Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Institute for German, European and International Criminal Law and Law of Criminal Procedure, Heidelberg University, Germany. Prof. i.R. Dr. Dieter Dölling is Professor i. R. of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Heidelberg University, Germany. Prof. Dr. Dieter Hermann is Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Heidelberg University, Germany. Dr. Kristina Höly is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max-Weber-Institute for Sociology, Heidelberg University, Germany. Maria Eugenia Trombini is Ph.D. candidate at the Max-Weber-Institute for Sociology, Heidelberg University, Germany. Prof. em. Subrata K. Mitra, Ph.D. (Rochester), is Professor emeritus of Political Science at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany and Adjunct Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland.

Social problems --- Sociology of health --- Criminology. Victimology --- Administrative law --- Social medicine --- georganiseerde misdaad --- sociologie --- administratief recht --- criminologie --- criminaliteit