Cybercrimeology

Browser Windows of opportunity: Cyberspace and Changes in Crime

Episode Summary

Dr. Fernando Miró-Llinares joins us to talk about the complicated intersection of crime and place in cyberspace and meatspace and how environmental criminology can offer insights into crime online.

Episode Notes

More about our Guest:

Dr. Fernando Miró-Llinares

https://www.umh.es/contenido/Estudiantes/:persona_27957/datos_es.html

Papers mentioned in this Episode:

Asier Moneva, Fernando Miró-Llinares & Timothy C. Hart (2020) Hunter or Prey? Exploring the Situational Profiles that Define Repeated Online Harassment Victims and Offenders, Deviant Behavior, DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2020.1746135

Miró-Llinares F., Moneva A. (2020) Environmental Criminology and Cybercrime: Shifting Focus from the Wine to the Bottles. In: Holt T., Bossler A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of International Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78440-3_30

David Buil-Gil, Fernando Miró-Llinares, Asier Moneva, Steven Kemp & Nacho Díaz-Castaño (2020) Cybercrime and shifts in opportunities during COVID-19: a preliminary analysis in the UK, European Societies, DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2020.1804973

Kemp, S., Miró-Llinares, F. & Moneva, A. The Dark Figure and the Cyber Fraud Rise in Europe: Evidence from Spain. Eur J Crim Policy Res 26, 293–312 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-020-09439-2

Farrell, G., Birks, D. Did cybercrime cause the crime drop?. Crime Sci 7, 8 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-018-0082-8

Miró-Llinares, F., Moneva, A. What about cyberspace (and cybercrime alongside it)? A reply to Farrell and Birks “Did cybercrime cause the crime drop?”. Crime Sci 8, 12 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-019-0107-y

Farrell, G., & Birks, D. (2020). Further rejection of the cybercrime hypothesis. Crime Science, 9, 1-4.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-020-00113-w

Other:

The introduction referenced the Spanish dubbed version of the 1983 movie "Juegos de guerra" or "War Games" a Metro-Goldwin Mayer film that is available for streaming online from MGM.

You can play dig dug from 1983 online here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dig_Dug_1983