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Contents:

Introduction
A. Verhage, L. Bisschop, W. Hardyns

Articles

‘Moral’ versus ‘Risk-based’ Policing of Cybercrime. Insights from Police Response to Internet Fraud in Saudi Arabia’s Capital City, Riyadh
A.F. Algarni (1)

Abstract
This paper contributes to current debates on the policing of Internet fraud by introducing the Saudi Arabian experience. Drawing on field research in the capital city, Riyadh, it explores how this new aspect of policing activity fits in with not only the existing organisational practices, but also the occupational and individual concerns of frontline officers. Moreover, the article considers the implications of the Saudi culture, social norms, and values for police responses to Internet fraud. It is argued that the policing of Internet fraud in Saudi Arabia, and the extent to which it fits with contemporary debates on risk-based policing of cybercrime, can only be understood by examining how new policing modes and cultural traditions merge and integrate to shape police response to this novel criminal phenomenon.

Keywords: fraud, internet, cybercrime, policing, risk, morality

(1) Assistant Professor of Criminology at King Fahad Security College’s Centre for Studies and Research.

Policing Online Child Sexual Abuse. The British Experience
E. Martelozzo (1)

Abstract
Incidents of child sexual abuse (CSA) are frequently documented and have recently attracted intense police, public scrutiny and efforts of social control across the Western world. This paper aims to explore the very concerning issue of online CSA and the way in which the police is responding to this growing problem. It will present some of the challenges the police in the United Kingdom face daily in dealing with the threats to children’s online safety. It argues that although proactive undercover policing has helped police forces to unmask sex offenders who predate innocent victims online, the advancement of technology is making the work of police officers more and more challenging. The findings presented have been collected over the last decade (2003-2013) during two exploratory, grounded theory studies, which involved the interviews with 21 police officers and forensic examiners and the observation and analysis of three police operations at the London Metropolitan Police Paedophile Unit in London.

Keywords: online child sexual abuse, online safety, technology, undercover policing, police challenges

(1) Criminologist at Middlesex University in London.

The Italian Police Forces into Neoliberal Frame. An Example of Perpetual Coexistence of Democratic and Authoritarian Practices and of Anamorphosis of Democratic Rules of Law
S. Palidda (1)

Abstract
This text proposes a description and analysis of the Italian police forces. The approach adopted specifically regards their social and political construction and therefore their practices within the political organization of society. In order to better analyse the social construction of the Italian police case, I propose regarding the police as one of the several social institutions involved in the continuous experimentation to find a political organization of society. Research into the Italian police forces has been, and is still, very rare. In this paper I refer to research that I have carried out on the Italian police forces since 1990, and also to other documents and knowledge gathered in judicial inquiries and from reliable special reports.

Keywords: Italian police forces, anamorphosis of the rules of law, tolerated and intolerable illegalities, discretion of police forces, ignored insecurities

(1) Professor a