Farrell, G orcid.org/0000-0002-3987-8457 and Birks, D orcid.org/0000-0003-3055-7398 (2018) Did cybercrime cause the crime drop? Crime Science, 7 (1). ARTN 8. ISSN 2193-7680
Abstract
Recent studies have hypothesised that the international crime drop was the result of the rise in cybercrime. We subject this ‘cybercrime hypothesis’ to critical assessment. We find significant evidence and argument indicating that cybercrime could not have caused the crime drop, and so we reject the cybercrime hypothesis.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | cybercrime; offender adaptation; internet fraud; crime drop; crime decline; security hypothesis; displacement |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2018 10:15 |
Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2018 10:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Open |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/s40163-018-0082-8 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135625 |
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