Enforcement knowledge
Enforcement knowledge
Law enforcement is not just a matter of policing, cybercrime is a concern of national states as well as international organizations. White-collar offenders online are business people on the wrong side of the law. The case of fraudulent travel agencies who trade in airline tickets illustrates the helplessness of police agencies such as the European Europol in tracing offenders and not just victimized travellers (Hutchings, 2018a, 2018b). The knowledge asymmetry between online offenders and law enforcement agencies does not exist because online offenders are advanced in the way they commit and conceal crime. Rather, online offenders operate in an underworld that people do not understand. The lack of understanding is not mainly caused by complicated programming and infrastructure, smart attacks, and advanced money laundering, but rather caused by simple reasons such as terminology and lack of basic intelligence. Just like white-collar offenders offline use a language that potential whistleblowers may not understand (Ferraro et al., 2005; Holt & Cornelissen, 2014; Mawritz et al., 2017), white-collar crime online is associated with a terminology that potential victims and notifiers may not understand. It might not be the technology itself that is complicated, but rather the terminology that represents a barrier to insights into cybercrime.
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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)
Enforcement knowledge.
In,
White-Collar Crime Online: Deviance, Organizational Behaviour and Risk.
1 ed.
London.
Palgrave Macmillan, .
(doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82132-6_8).
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Abstract
Law enforcement is not just a matter of policing, cybercrime is a concern of national states as well as international organizations. White-collar offenders online are business people on the wrong side of the law. The case of fraudulent travel agencies who trade in airline tickets illustrates the helplessness of police agencies such as the European Europol in tracing offenders and not just victimized travellers (Hutchings, 2018a, 2018b). The knowledge asymmetry between online offenders and law enforcement agencies does not exist because online offenders are advanced in the way they commit and conceal crime. Rather, online offenders operate in an underworld that people do not understand. The lack of understanding is not mainly caused by complicated programming and infrastructure, smart attacks, and advanced money laundering, but rather caused by simple reasons such as terminology and lack of basic intelligence. Just like white-collar offenders offline use a language that potential whistleblowers may not understand (Ferraro et al., 2005; Holt & Cornelissen, 2014; Mawritz et al., 2017), white-collar crime online is associated with a terminology that potential victims and notifiers may not understand. It might not be the technology itself that is complicated, but rather the terminology that represents a barrier to insights into cybercrime.
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Published date: 6 October 2021
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