Online Convenience
Online Convenience
Online opportunities are a double-edge sword providing many opportunities for individuals and organizations to develop and prosper, but at the same time has brought with it new opportunities to commit crime (Salifu, 2008). Most studies seem to apply the victim perspective of computer crime. This perspective implies that an individual, a group, an organization, or a society is the victim of crime. In this book, we apply the offender perspective. The offender perspective implies that an individual, a group, an organization, or a society is the criminal responsible for computer crime. In the victim perspective, a survey revealed that next to malware infection and theft of IT equipment, hacking was the most commonly reported computer crime incident. The findings of Hagen et al. (2008) document that computer crime causes extra work for the victim and loss of earnings as well. Several of the reported crime incidents in their study could be countered by improved access control and data protection measures in addition to awareness raising activities. Their survey revealed that there are large differences in security practices between large and small enterprises, even when it comes to measures one might have thought that all enterprises independent of size would have implemented.
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Hamerton, Christopher
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Gottschalk, Petter
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6 October 2021
Hamerton, Christopher
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Gottschalk, Petter
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Hamerton, Christopher and Gottschalk, Petter
(2021)
Online Convenience.
In,
White-Collar Crime Online: Deviance, Organizational Behaviour and Risk.
1 ed.
London.
Palgrave Macmillan, .
(doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82132-6_3).
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Online opportunities are a double-edge sword providing many opportunities for individuals and organizations to develop and prosper, but at the same time has brought with it new opportunities to commit crime (Salifu, 2008). Most studies seem to apply the victim perspective of computer crime. This perspective implies that an individual, a group, an organization, or a society is the victim of crime. In this book, we apply the offender perspective. The offender perspective implies that an individual, a group, an organization, or a society is the criminal responsible for computer crime. In the victim perspective, a survey revealed that next to malware infection and theft of IT equipment, hacking was the most commonly reported computer crime incident. The findings of Hagen et al. (2008) document that computer crime causes extra work for the victim and loss of earnings as well. Several of the reported crime incidents in their study could be countered by improved access control and data protection measures in addition to awareness raising activities. Their survey revealed that there are large differences in security practices between large and small enterprises, even when it comes to measures one might have thought that all enterprises independent of size would have implemented.
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Published date: 6 October 2021
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