America’s most wanted criminals: comparing cybercriminals and traditional criminals

Payne, Brian K.; May, David C.; Hadzhidimova, Lora

doi:10.1080/1478601x.2018.1532420

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“…The findings of this analysis also provide direction for criminal justice system responses to computer hackers. Although hacking has been criminalized in Western nations since the 1980s, there have been a relatively small number of individuals arrested and prosecuted for these offenses (see Payne et al, 2019; Smith et al, 2004). This trend is particularly concerning given the increased economic harm resulting from hacks that affect retailers and payment processors (Holt & Bossler, 2015).…”

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An Examination of Motivation and Routine Activity Theory to Account for Cyberattacks Against Dutch Web Sites

Holt

Leukfeldt

Weijer

2020

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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This study provides a partial test of the relationship between actor motivations and target suitability using a routine activity framework to understand a form of cybercrime called web defacements. Specifically, the relationships between the visibility, inertia, value, and accessibility of the target in online spaces relative to the unique nonmonetary motivations of the attacker were examined. This study utilized a sample of 138,361 web defacements performed against websites hosted within the Netherlands IP space from January 2011 to April 2017. Seven multinomial logistic regression models were conducted for each self-identified motive for the attack, clustered by attacker to minimize the size of standard errors. The findings demonstrated partial support for aspects of routine activity theory to account for differences in offender motivation, suggesting web defacements are similar to other forms of cybercrime. At the same time, motivations differentially shape target selection.

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An Examination of Motivation and Routine Activity Theory to Account for Cyberattacks Against Dutch Web Sites

Holt

Leukfeldt

Weijer

2020

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…The type of data used to investigate cybercriminals is also crucial to understanding the nature of this research on this topic. We found that 22 (or, just over half of the) articles rely on new data, be it from surveys, interviews (with criminals and law enforcement), court records, case studies, underground markets or honeypots [3], [7], [8], [10], [11], [24], [29], [31]- [36], [43]- [45], [48], [49], [52], [57]- [59]. The other studies primarily use existing literature to form their arguments and often rely on research from other fields, or established approaches mapped to the cybercrime domain [2], [4], [5], [9], [12], [13], [15], [18], [21], [25], [27], [46], [50], [53]- [56].…”

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“…These studies have identified that factors such as political ideology, economic or social factors or the feeling of personal accomplishment which can lead to online criminal behaviour. Only limited work provided further contributions in understanding cyber-offenders by exploring demographic and contextual attributes [43], [57]. In Payne et al [43] for example, they found that online offenders may be younger than all other offender types, and they are usually male or are likely to be white.…”

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“…Only limited work provided further contributions in understanding cyber-offenders by exploring demographic and contextual attributes [43], [57]. In Payne et al [43] for example, they found that online offenders may be younger than all other offender types, and they are usually male or are likely to be white.…”

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Profiling the Cybercriminal: A Systematic Review of Research

Bada

Nurse

2021

2021 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA)

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“…A certain "profitability" of criminal law lies in the fact that through a criminal law prohibition, as well as certain rules-incentives, the legislator focuses on law-abiding behaviour associated with economic and financial activities (payment of mandatory payments, refraining from criminal bankruptcy, etc.). Works on this issue are predominantly in the nature of theoretical and applied research of subjective and objective signs of certain elements of crimes [10][11][12].…”

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Economization of the criminal law branch: problem formulation directions of optimization

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The need for legislative clarification, and, in some cases, for the consolidation of those institutions of criminal law in conjunction with criminal executive legislation, which are aimed at optimizing the current financial costs in connection with the implementation of criminal law, becomes obvious against the background of the desire for a general humanization of criminal policy and the economic crisis observed not only in Russia, but at the international level. Currently, a theoretical and methodological substantiation of the economization of the criminal law branch including the development of methods, principles, tools for state costs reduction at all stages of criminal prosecution, including using the organizational and economic mechanism of the penal system is required. The cost of the criminal law mechanism is due to the need, on the one hand, to ensure the rights of persons who have committed a crime, on the other hand, to protect the victims and minimize the consequences of the harm caused. The purpose hereof is to identify the internal reserves of individual institutions of criminal and penal legislation to determine new areas of optimization of savings in the criminal law branch by reducing the costs of criminal prosecution, on the one hand, and increasing budgetary profitability in the implementation of criminal legal institutions of a property nature, on the other hand. The work uses general scientific, specific scientific and special methods traditional for theoretical and applied legal research – the method of comparative jurisprudence, law interpretation method, systemic-structural method, statistical method, correlation method, content analysis of scientific publications, various types of extrapolation, etc. The novelty of the scientific research lies in a fundamentally new approach to the assessment of criminal law in conjunction with criminal executive legislation to find optimal solutions aimed at increasing the profitability of criminal law institutions and finding mechanisms for material support for victims.

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America’s most wanted criminals: comparing cybercriminals and traditional criminals

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

An Examination of Motivation and Routine Activity Theory to Account for Cyberattacks Against Dutch Web Sites

An Examination of Motivation and Routine Activity Theory to Account for Cyberattacks Against Dutch Web Sites

Profiling the Cybercriminal: A Systematic Review of Research

Economization of the criminal law branch: problem formulation directions of optimization

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