The Human Factor of Cybercrime

ISBN-13: 9781032087191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 448 str.

Rutger Leukfeldt; Thomas J. Holt

Opis

Bringing together leading experts, this book is about the human factor in cybercrime: its offenders, victims and parties involved in tackling cybercrime.

Spis treści

Part I: Background; 1. It ain’t what it is, its the way that they do it? Why we still don’t understand cybercrime Mike McGuire; 2. Contributions of Criminological Theory to the Understanding of Cybercrime Offending and Victimization Adam Bossler; 3. The Open And Dark Web: Facilitating Cybercrime And Technology-Enabled Offenses Claudia Flamand and David Décary-Hétu; Part II: Victims; 4. Predictors of Cybercrime Victimization: Causal Effects or Biased Associations? Steve van de Weijer; 5. Virtual Danger: An Overview of Interpersonal Cybercrimes Jordana Navarro; 6. Sexual Violence in Digital Society: Understanding the Human and Technosocial Factors Anastasia Powell, Asher Flynn and Nicola Henry; Part III: Offenders; 7. Cybercrime subcultures: Contextualizing offenders and the nature of the offence Thomas J. Holt; 8. On Social Engineering Kevin Steinmetz, Richard Goe, and Alexandra Pimentel; 9. Contrasting cyber-dependent and traditional offenders: a comparison on criminological explanations and potential prevention methods Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg; 10. Financial cybercrimes and situational crime prevention Rutger Leukfeldt and Jurjen Jansen; 11. Modelling Cybercrime Development: The case of Vietnam Jonathan Lusthaus; 12. Humanizing the Cybercriminal: Markets, Forums, and the Carding Subculture Craig Webber and Michael Yip; 13. The Roles of ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Media Tools and Technologies in the Facilitation of Violent Extremism and Terrorism Ryan Scrivens and Maura Conway; 14. Child Sex Abuse Images and Exploitation Materials Roderic Broadhurst; Part IV : Policing; 15. Policing Cybercrime: Responding to the Growing Problem and Considering Future Solutions Cassandra Dodge and George Burruss; 16. Responding to individual fraud: Perspectives of the Fraud Justice Network Cassandra Cross; 17. The Ecology of Cybercrime Benoît Dupont; 18. Displacing big data: How criminals cheat the system Alice Hutchings, Sergio Pastrana and Richard Clayton

O autorze

Dr. Rutger Leukfeldt is senior researcher and cybercrime cluster coordinator at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). Furthermore, Rutger is director of the Cybersecurity & SMEs Research Center of the Hague University of Applied Sciences. Over the last decade, Rutger worked on a number of cybercrime studies for the Dutch government and private companies. Rutger is currently the chair of the Cybercrime Working Group of the European Society of Criminology (ESC).

Dr. Thomas J. Holt is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University specializing in cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and the police response to these threats. His work has been published in a range of journals, and he is also the author of multiple books and edited works.