Band 5
Cryptographic Crimes The Use of Cryptography in Real and Fictional Crimes
Aus der Reihe
Criminal Humanities & Forensic Semiotics
Fr. 139.00
inkl. gesetzl. MwSt.,
Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
18.10.2017
Abbildungen
Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Herausgeber
Marcel Danesi + weitereVerlag
Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New YorkSeitenzahl
132
Maße (L/B/H)
23.1/15.5/1.2 cm
Gewicht
310 g
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4331-3521-7
This book examines the use of cryptography in both real and fictional crimes—a topic that is rarely broached. It discusses famous crimes, such as that of the Zodiac Killer, that revolve around cryptic messages and current uses of encryption that make solving cases harder and harder. It then draws parallels with the use of cryptography and secret writing in crime fiction, starting with Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, claiming that there is an implicit principle in all such writing—namely, that if the cryptogram is deciphered then the crime itself reveals its structure. The general conclusion drawn is that solving crimes is akin to solving cryptograms, as the crime fiction writers suggested. Cases of cryptographic crime, from unsolved cold cases to the Mafia crimes, are discussed and mapped against this basic theoretical assumption. The book concludes by suggesting that by studying cryptographic crimes the key to understanding crime may be revealed.
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