2019
DOI: 10.1186/s40163-019-0107-y
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What about cyberspace (and cybercrime alongside it)? A reply to Farrell and Birks “Did cybercrime cause the crime drop?”

Abstract: In this paper we question Farrell and Birks’ assertion of the emergence of cybercrime as an invalid explanation for the crime drop. Alternatively to the “cybercrime hypothesis”, we propose two non-exclusive hypotheses that highlight the essential role of cyberspace as an environment that has shifted criminal opportunities from physical to virtual space, which reflects on crime trends. The first hypothesis posits that the more time spent at home by many young people due to video games and online leisure activit… Show more

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“…49 This is a good illustration of how actors may use technologies in creative and unpredictable ways. 50 It has also been argued that the Internet creates affordances that facilitate innovative ways of committing old and new crimes 51 and Jerde suggests child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as an example of crime that uses Internet affordances to "circumvent law enforcement techniques deployed around national borders to avoid detection" 52 (p 2). A further study in the context of cyberbullying on social networking sites (SNSs) used affordance to refer to the mutuality of actor intentions and technology capabilities that provide the potential for a particular action.…”
Section: Affordancesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…49 This is a good illustration of how actors may use technologies in creative and unpredictable ways. 50 It has also been argued that the Internet creates affordances that facilitate innovative ways of committing old and new crimes 51 and Jerde suggests child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as an example of crime that uses Internet affordances to "circumvent law enforcement techniques deployed around national borders to avoid detection" 52 (p 2). A further study in the context of cyberbullying on social networking sites (SNSs) used affordance to refer to the mutuality of actor intentions and technology capabilities that provide the potential for a particular action.…”
Section: Affordancesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A este dato, le sumamos el anonimato y globalización que muestra el ciberespacio, junto a su peligrosidad (Maimon & Louderback, 2019). En consecuencia, vemos cómo el cibercrimen, en general, está aumentando (p.ej., Kemp et al, 2020;Miró-Llinares & Moneva, 2019), y en concreto, el ciberacoso (Cosma et al, 2020). Los menores de edad son la víctima perfecta para los delincuentes debido a su inocencia y a la poca información que tienen sobre cómo usar Internet de forma segura (González-Ortega et al, 2008).…”
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“…, 1999), y la desintegración posterior de la Unión Soviética en 1991 (Martín & Pérez, 2002) y, con ello, la desaparición del Telón de Acero (Sivignon, 1997). Por lo tanto, la tendencia global descendente de la victimización de los robos en domicilio y las agresiones podría tener su fundamento en la transformación de las actividades cotidianas y de ocio de la población tras la explosión de internet, generando nuevas oportunidades delictivas en el ciberespacio y pudiendo contribuir a los cambios en los delitos que se cometen en el espacio físico (Caneppele & Aebi, 2017;Miró-Llinares & Moneva, 2019). Así se puede comprender de la tendencia al alza de los delitos de fraude en internet en Europa, a pesar de que el fraude tradicional ha disminuido levemente (Kemp et al, 2020).…”
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