Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)

Required text for my graduate coursework. In all honesty, this is one of the worst texts I've ever utilized. Woefully outdated. For the life of me, I can't understand why universities require purchasing texts such as this one, which are not current or relevant. I have 14 years of military intelligence training and 14 years in federal law enforcement, so maybe my knowledge and experiences put me outside the intended audience of this text. I felt is was extremely basic and common sense material, more suitable for a pamphlet or guide, rather than a text. And, most definitely NOT suitable for grad study. In my grad course, I quickly learned to ignore this text and focus all of my research upon current, relevant and substantial information from professional, peer reviewed publications. But, to be fair, I find this to be the case with almost all required texts.

This book is a very good reference book, however, the only problem is the material in the content is a little bit out of date. The author or the publisher should add something new then republish.

My biggest complaint was the small print. Really good on the history side of industrial spying, very in depth and very detailed.

Author Hedieh Nasheri suggests that if James Bond were alive and well, he probably would be pounding a keyboard somewhere. Her book consists of an entertaining review of historic case studies of computer crimes and industrial spying, plus an examination of the laws that nations have passed in an attempt to stem the leaky tide of outgoing information. The book defines the magnitude of the problem and pounds the drums for greater international cooperation on security and protection of intellectual property, but it is short on real solutions. And who can blame Nasheri? When countries such as China and France bug airplane seats, break into hotel rooms, pilfer attaché cases and pay cash for pirated industrial secrets, why delve into international policing? We believe that reading this book is a sound place to start deepening the business community's education about this escalating problem.