Victims of cybercrime: understanding the impact through accounts

Mark Button; Dean Blackbourn; Lisa Sugiura; David William James Shepherd; Richard Kapend; Victoria Wang

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-60527-8_9

Victims of cybercrime: understanding the impact through accounts

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

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Abstract

The technological changes of the last 30 years have facilitated a substantial increase in cybercrimes. The impact of these crimes on victims has not been the subject of extensive research. This paper based upon a British Home Office funded study draws upon the experience of 52 victims of computer misuse crime, which can be broadly grouped under hacking and computer virus related crimes. Drawing upon the interviews with these victims the researchers identified a continuum of three components founded upon the seriousness of the incident and the impact on the victim. These three categories included: incidents of inconvenience, crimes of inconvenience and serious crimes of personal violation or significant financial loss or fear of. The paper provides depth accounts of 15 of the 52 victims interviewed to illustrate this continuum.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cybercrime in Context
Subtitle of host publication	The Human Factor in Victimization, Offending, and Policing
Editors	Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg, Rutger Leukfeldt
Publisher	Springer
Pages	137-156
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030605278
ISBN (Print)	9783030605261
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60527-8_9
Publication status	Published - 4 May 2021

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Name	Crime and Justice in Digital Society
Publisher	Springer
Volume	1
ISSN (Print)	2524-4701
ISSN (Electronic)	2524-471X

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Button, M., Blackbourn, D., Sugiura, L., Shepherd, D. W. J., Kapend, R., & Wang, V. (2021). Victims of cybercrime: understanding the impact through accounts. In M. Weulen Kranenbarg, & R. Leukfeldt (Eds.), Cybercrime in Context: The Human Factor in Victimization, Offending, and Policing (pp. 137-156). (Crime and Justice in Digital Society; Vol. 1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60527-8_9

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Button, M, Blackbourn, D, Sugiura, L , Shepherd, DWJ, Kapend, R & Wang, V 2021, Victims of cybercrime: understanding the impact through accounts. in M Weulen Kranenbarg & R Leukfeldt (eds), Cybercrime in Context: The Human Factor in Victimization, Offending, and Policing. Crime and Justice in Digital Society, vol. 1, Springer, pp. 137-156. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60527-8_9

Victims of cybercrime: understanding the impact through accounts. / Button, Mark; Blackbourn, Dean; Sugiura, Lisa et al.
Cybercrime in Context: The Human Factor in Victimization, Offending, and Policing. ed. / Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg; Rutger Leukfeldt. Springer, 2021. p. 137-156 (Crime and Justice in Digital Society; Vol. 1).

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