The involvement process for financial-economic cyber-enabled crime: Exploring the roles of preexisting ties and offender convergence settings.
This paper examines the involvement process of youth in financial cybercrime, focusing on preexisting ties and offender convergence settings. Based on interviews with 25 experts, and analysis of five criminal cases, we find that preexisting offline ties remain the most crucial, especially for core g...
| Publicado en: | Crime, Law & Social Change Vol. 84; no. 1; pp. 1 - 30 |
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5/5/2026
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