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.
1. Introduction.-
2. The Annual Conference on the Human Factor in
Cybercrime: An analysis of participation in the 2018 and 2019 meetings.-
3.
Cyber awareness versus actual online behaviour: a population based survey
experiment.-
4. Susceptibility to Malware-Based Phishing and Smishing
Attacks: An Experimental examination of the efficacy of thoughtfully
reflective decision making and routine activities.- 5. No Gambles with
Information Security: The Neuropsychology of a Ransomware Attack.- 6.
Shifting the blame? Investigation of user compliance with digital payment
regulations.- 7. The risk of an employees cyber misconduct on a Social Media
Site: A potential threat factor for your organizations brand reputation and
business endurance.-
8. Situating the effects of cybercrime victimization
within the scope public safety: An exploratory study.- 9. Show me the money!
Identy fraud financial losses and victims' efforts for reimbursement.- 10.
The Impact of CyberCrime: The Victims Perspectives.- 11. The Prevention of
Financial Cybercrimes: What Do Clients Think?.- 12. Saint or Satan? Moral
Development and Dark Triad Influences on Cyber-Criminal Intent.- 13.
Cybercrime versus traditional crime: empirical evidence for clusters of
offenses and related motivations.- 14. Gender Similarities (and Some
Differences) Among Cybercrime Offenders Under Federal Supervision in the
United States.- 15. Exploring the Role of Gender in Online Cybercrime
Subcultures.-
16. Predicting the popularity of online account credentials
advertisements.- 17. Child sexual exploitation communities on the Darkweb:
How organized are they?.- 18. The Changing Division of Criminal Labour within
the Modern Cybercrime Ecosystem.-19. Infrastructural power: mapping struggles
over meaning, crime, and control in the Tor anonymity network.- 20. Law and
Human Perspectives to Cybercrime Perpetration in Africa.- 21. Cybercrime
reporting behaviors among small and medium-sized enterprises in the
Netherlands. 22. Textmining for cybercrime in registrations of the Dutch
police.
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).
