Violence, Conflicts and Weapons in the World of Financial–Economic Cybercrime.
The digitization of society has facilitated cafeteria-style offending behaviours among financially motivated offenders: offenders exploit technological possibilities to enhance already existing crime scripts. This raises questions about the presence of offline crime elements in the commission of onl...
| Published in: | British Journal of Criminology Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 331 - 349 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2026
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