Across the world each year millions of people are victimised by online crime, many of whom fall victim to online fraud … current research is strongly motivated by the need to translate research on romance fraud victimology into practical and …. One of the most enduring and prolific types of online fraud is romance fraud. Romance fraud often leads to financial and …

Cyber-enabled fraud has transformed, becoming more complex and making it harder for targets and law enforcement to … detect its occurrence. This study aims to recontextualize a major manifestation of this transformation, a crime called hybrid … investment fraud, colloquially known as pig butchering. Hybrid investment fraud describes a cyber-enabled fraud whereby criminals …

Fraud is the most frequently experienced crime in the UK, yet significantly underreported. Despite its prevalence …, understanding and addressing fraud remains challenging. This paper applies the interdisciplinary framework of 'wicked problems' to … fraud, proposing a novel approach to categorise fraud based on its impact on victims rather than the intent of perpetrators …

attitude and economic crime. Based on a survey of the British public, this article presents insights into this relationship. By … one economic crime. The higher levels of dishonesty in males and younger adults helps to explain their more prolific … offending. Both the honesty and age-economic crime curves indicate that the maturation decline in offending is gradual compared …

odds of reporting fraud to police and banks. Findings from a sample from the 2017 National Crime Victimization Survey …Reporting victimization to the police or one's bank is a crucial step for victims of fraud, but many victims of fraud …'s Supplemental Fraud Survey (n = 540) indicate that acknowledgement is positively associated with odds of reporting to police and …

There is strong evidence that corporate psychopaths - ruthless people who willingly engage in fraud and even enjoy … psychopathy has obvious implications for fraud and causes significant societal harm (both financial and non-financial), its … correlation with fraud has had minimal coverage in both the academic accountancy literature and counter-fraud literature. This …

brings scholars and papers together exploring economic crime. The paper argues that crimes associated with economic … economic crime and that this is a natural development of criminology. …

crime, yet no crime without communication. Put differently, the criminal act in technology-mediated environments is always …' understanding of action onto acts of cybercrime, the crime-as-communication approach instead builds a communication-based foundation … constitute cybercrime, crime-as-communication offers a principled way of analysing mediated crime specifically, and action in …

victims. Responding to a dearth of evidence about this crime, this study analyses patterns within a large dataset of over 23 … time, but the tactics employed by offenders are remarkably standardised. Payment demands involved in the crime were …