Further rejection of the cybercrime hypothesis

Abstract We recently rejected the hypothesis that increases in cybercrime may have caused the international crime drop. Critics subsequently argued that offenders switched from physical crime to cybercrime in recent years, and that lifestyle changes due to ‘leisure IT’ may have caused the internatio...

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Main Authors: Graham Farrell, Daniel Birks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:Crime Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40163-020-00113-w