What about cyberspace (and cybercrime alongside it)? A reply to Farrell and Birks “Did cybercrime cause the crime drop?”
Abstract In this paper we question Farrell and Birks’ assertion of the emergence of cybercrime as an invalid explanation for the crime drop. Alternatively to the “cybercrime hypothesis”, we propose two non-exclusive hypotheses that highlight the essential role of cyberspace as an environment that ha...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Crime Science |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40163-019-0107-y |