Cybercrime
Reading assignments
The following papers are assigned reading for Cybercrime/R254, which should be read prior to the class indicated. Please contact the module instructors if you have any questions.
- Introduction (23 January 2023)
No set readings.
- Cybercrime victimisation (30 January 2023)
- Grabosky, P. N. (2001). Virtual criminality: Old wine in new bottles? Social & Legal Studies, 10(2), 243-249.
- de Kimpe, L., Ponnet, K., Walrave, M, Snaphaan, T., Pauwels, L., & Hardyns, W. (2020). Help, I need somebody: Examining the antecedents of social support seeking among cybercrime victims. Computers in Human Behavior, 108(2020), 106310.
- Cohen, L. E. & Felson, M. (1979). Social change and crime rate trends: A routine activity approach. American Sociological Review, 44(4), 588-608.
- Costs and harms of cybercrime (6 February 2023)
- Anderson, R., Barton, C., Böhme, R., Clayton, R., Gañán, C., Grasso, T., Levi, M., Moore, T., & Vasek, M. (2019). Measuring the changing cost of cybercrime. Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS19), Boston, 3-4 June.
- Tcherni, M., Davies, A., Lopes, G., & Lizotte, A. (2016). The dark figure of online property crime: Is cyberspace hiding a crime wave? Justice Quarterly, 33(5), 890-911.
- Criminal marketplaces (15 February 2023--please note this session falls on a Wednesday)
- van Wegberg, R., Tajalizadehkhoob, S., Soska, K., Akyazi, U., Ganan, C. H., Klievink, B., Christin, N., & van Eeten M. (2018). Plug and prey? Measuring the commoditization of cybercrime via online anonymous markets. Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium. Baltimore, 15-17 August.
- Mirian, A., DeBlasio, J., Savage, S., Voelker, G. M., & Thomas, K. (2019). Hack for hire: Exploring the emerging market for account hijacking. Proceedings of the ACM World Wide Web Conference, San Francisco, 13-17 May.
- Vu, A. V., Hughes, J., Pete, I., Collier, B., Chua, Y. T., Shumailov, I., & Hutchings, A. (2020). Turning up the dial: The evolution of a cybercrime market through set-up, stable, and COVID-19 eras. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Pittsburgh.
- Hutchings, A. & Holt, T. J. (2015). A crime script analysis of the online stolen data market. British Journal of Criminology, 55(3), 596-614.
- Cybercrime offenders and offender pathways (20 February 2023)
- Lusthaus, J. (2013). How organised is organised cybercrime? Global Crime, 14(1), 52-60.
- Collier, B., Clayton, R., Hutchings, A., & Thomas, D. R. (2021). Cybercrime is (often) boring: Infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture. British Journal of Criminology, 61(5), 1407-1423.
- Pastrana, S., Hutchings, A., Caines, A., & Buttery, P. (2018). Characterizing Eve: Analysing cybercrime actors in a large underground forum. 21st International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), Heraklion, 10-12 September.
- Hutchings, A. & Clayton, R. (2016). Exploring the provision of online booter services. Deviant Behavior, 37(10), 1163-1178.
- Regulation and policy (27 February 2023) **PLEASE NOTE TOPIC CHANGE FOR THIS DATE**
- Clayton, R., Moore, T., & Christin, N. (2015). Concentrating correctly on cybercrime concentration. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, Delft.
- Abelson, H., Anderson, R., Bellovin, S. M., Benaloh, J., Blaze, M., Diffie, W., Gilmore, J., Green, M., Landau, S., Neumann, P. G., Rivest, R. L., Schiller, J. I., Schneier, B., Specter, M. A., & Weitzner, D. J. (2015). Keys under doormats: mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications. Journal of Cybersecurity, 1(1), 69-79.
- Cybercrime prevention (6 March 2023) **PLEASE NOTE TOPIC CHANGE FOR THIS DATE**
- Brantingham, P. J., & Faust, F. L. (1976). A conceptual model of crime prevention. Crime & Delinquency, 22(3), 284-296.
- Collier, B., Thomas, D. R., Clayton, R., & Hutchings, A. (2019). Booting the Booters: Evaluating the effects of police interventions in the market for denial-of-service attacks. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Amsterdam.
- Hutchings, A., Clayton, R., & Anderson, R. (2016). Taking down websites to prevent crime. Electronic Crime Reseach (eCrime), Toronto, 1-3 June.
- Smith, R. G., Wolanin, N., & Worthington, G. (2003). E-crime solutions and crime displacement. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice series no. 243. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Cybercrime and the criminal justice system (13 March 2023)
- Wall, D S. (2007). Policing cybercrimes: Situating the public police in networks of security within cyberspace. Police Practice and Research, 8(2), 183-205.
- Holt, T. J., Burruss, G. W., & Bossler, A. M. (2018). An examination of English and Welsh constables’ perceptions of the seriousness and frequency of online incidents. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 29(8), 906-921.