Did cybercrime cause the crime drop?

Did cybercrime cause the crime drop?

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 r...

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Main Authors: Graham Farrell, Daniel Birks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-08-01
Series:Crime Science
Subjects:
Cybercrime
Offender adaptation
Internet fraud
Crime drop
Crime decline
Security hypothesis
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40163-018-0082-8

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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40163-018-0082-8

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