期刊名称：Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
电子版ISSN：1070-8286
出版年度：2010
卷号：17
期号：1
出版社：State University of New York at Albany
摘要：Using unobtrusive observation of several websites and forums, the author of the current study analyzes the nature of formal and informal socialcontrols within subcultures of software piracy. Through this analysis it is proposed that subcultures of piracy exhibit pronounced examples of internal social control measures that limit and control access to the criminal toolkit necessary to successfully pirate, and that various pirate typologies emerge as a result of social control mechanisms endemic to a subculture of piracy as well as the external pressures from formal legal social control. The usefulness of a subcultural perspective of piracy is explored and implications regarding the incorporation of other criminological theories are discussed. Further implications for policy makers, software industry members, and scholars are proposed
