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2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Michael Scherer ◽  
Kenneth Beck ◽  
Eileen P. Taylor ◽  
Ann Romosz ◽  
Robert Voas ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Holt ◽  
Rutger Leukfeldt ◽  
Steve van de Weijer

This study provides a partial test of the relationship between actor motivations and target suitability using a routine activity framework to understand a form of cybercrime called web defacements. Specifically, the relationships between the visibility, inertia, value, and accessibility of the target in online spaces relative to the unique nonmonetary motivations of the attacker were examined. This study utilized a sample of 138,361 web defacements performed against websites hosted within the Netherlands IP space from January 2011 to April 2017. Seven multinomial logistic regression models were conducted for each self-identified motive for the attack, clustered by attacker to minimize the size of standard errors. The findings demonstrated partial support for aspects of routine activity theory to account for differences in offender motivation, suggesting web defacements are similar to other forms of cybercrime. At the same time, motivations differentially shape target selection.



2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-348
Author(s):  
Rick Ruddell ◽  
Scott Decker

There has been recent interest in applying contemporary criminological theories to better understand historical criminal behavior and events. Retrospective studies—much like case studies—can be a useful methodology to help us understand the justice system responses to crime and in particular what strategies “worked” or were ineffective. This study examined 241 train robberies that occurred between 1866 and 1930 and found that routine activities theory can explain the origins, growth, and eradication of this violent and often costly crime. Reducing offender motivation and target attractiveness as well as increasing capable guardianship of shipments of attractive goods explains the eradication of this form of crime. Implications for a criminology of public transportation are discussed.



2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher King ◽  
Stephanie Brooks Holliday ◽  
Kellie Mcwilliams ◽  
Na Y. Kim ◽  
Kirk Heilbrun ◽  
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2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 1564-1578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damon Mitchell ◽  
D.J. Angelone ◽  
Brittany Kohlberger ◽  
Richard Hirschman


2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. A. Jacobs
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