Cybercrime in Context

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg, Rutger Leukfeldt

      Pages 3-4

   3. The Annual Conference on the Human Factor in Cybercrime: An Analysis of Participation in the 2018 and 2019 Meetings

      • Asier Moneva

      Pages 5-17

3. Victims

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. The Online Behaviour and Victimization Study: The Development of an Experimental Research Instrument for Measuring and Explaining Online Behaviour and Cybercrime Victimization

      • M. Susanne van ’t Hoff-de Goede, E. Rutger Leukfeldt, Rick van der Kleij, Steve G. A. van de Weijer

      Pages 21-41

   3. No Gambles with Information Security: The Victim Psychology of a Ransomware Attack

      • David L. McIntyre, Richard Frank

      Pages 43-60

   4. Shifting the Blame? Investigation of User Compliance with Digital Payment Regulations

      • Sophie Van Der Zee

      Pages 61-78

   5. Protect Against Unintentional Insider Threats: The Risk of an Employee’s Cyber Misconduct on a Social Media Site

      • Guerrino Mazzarolo, Juan Carlos Fernández Casas, Anca Delia Jurcut, Nhien-An Le-Khac

      Pages 79-101

   6. Assessing the Detrimental Impact of Cyber-Victimization on Self-Perceived Community Safety

      • James F. Popham

      Pages 103-122

   7. Show Me the Money! Identity Fraud Losses, Capacity to Act, and Victims’ Efforts for Reimbursement

      • Johan van Wilsem, Take Sipma, Esther Meijer-van Leijsen

      Pages 123-136

   8. Victims of Cybercrime: Understanding the Impact Through Accounts

      • Mark Button, Dean Blackbourn, Lisa Sugiura, David Shepherd, Richard Kapend, Victoria Wang

      Pages 137-156

   9. The Impact of a Canadian Financial Cybercrime Prevention Campaign on Clients’ Sense of Security

      • Cameron Coutu, Benoît Dupont

      Pages 157-172

4. Offenders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Saint or Satan? Moral Development and Dark Triad Influences on Cybercriminal Intent

      • Nicole Selzer, Sebastian Oelrich

      Pages 175-194

   3. Cyber-Dependent Crime Versus Traditional Crime: Empirical Evidence for Clusters of Offenses and Related Motives

      • Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg

      Pages 195-216

   4. Examining Gender-Responsive Risk Factors That Predict Recidivism for People Convicted of Cybercrimes

      • Erin Harbinson

      Pages 217-236

   5. Exploring Masculinities and Perceptions of Gender in Online Cybercrime Subcultures

      • Maria Bada, Yi Ting Chua, Ben Collier, Ildiko Pete

      Pages 237-257

   6. Child Sexual Exploitation Communities on the Darkweb: How Organized Are They?

      • Madeleine van der Bruggen, Arjan Blokland

      Pages 259-280

5. Policing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281

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This book is about the human factor in cybercrime: its offenders, victims and parties involved in tackling cybercrime. It takes a diverse international perspective of the response to and prevention of cybercrime by seeking to understand not just the technological, but the human decision-making involved.

This edited volume represents the state of the art of research on the human factor in cybercrime, addressing its victims, offenders, and policing. It originated at the Second annual Conference on the Human Factor in Cybercrime, held in The Netherlands in October 2019, bringing together empirical research from a variety of disciplines, and theoretical and methodological approaches.

This volume will be of particular interest to researchers and students in cybercrime and the psychology of cybercrime, as well as policy makers and law enforcement interested in prevention and detection.

• cybercrime
• human factor cybercrime
• cyber victim
• cyber offender
• cyber policing
• dark web cybercrime

• Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg

• Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Rutger Leukfeldt

• Centre of Expertise Cyber Security, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, The Netherlands

  Rutger Leukfeldt

Dr. Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg is an assistant professor at VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her research mostly focuses on cyber-dependent offenders. In her doctoral dissertation she empirically compared traditional offenders to cyber-offenders on four important domains in criminology: 1. offending over the life-course, 2. personal and situational risk factors for offending and victimization, 3. similarity in deviance in the social network, and 4. motivations related to different offense clusters. She recently started a large-scale longitudinal study into actual vs. perceived cybercriminal behaviour of offline vs. online social ties among youth. Marleen is also a research fellow of the NSCR (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement), board member of the ESC Cybercrime Working Group, and part of the steering committee of the IIRCC (International Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Cybercrime).


Dr. Rutger Leukfeldt is Senior Researcher and the cybercrime cluster coordinator at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and Academic Director of Centre of Expertise Cybersecurity of the Hague University of Applied Sciences. His work focusses on the human factor in cybercrime and cybersecurity. Recent examples include studies into pathways into cybercrime, organized cybercrime and risk profiles of cybercrime victims. Over de past decade, Rutger worked on various studies for public and private organizations. Furthermore, he received a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (EU grant for promising researchers) and a Veni grant (Dutch grant for highly promising researchers) to carry out a study into cybercriminal networks. Rutger is currently the chair of the Cybercrime Working Group of the European Society of Criminology (ESC).

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