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An Exploratory Study Of Macro-Social Correlates Of Online Property Crime, Hyojong Song
An Exploratory Study Of Macro-Social Correlates Of Online Property Crime, Hyojong Song
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Despite the recent decreasing trend of most traditional types of crime, online property crime (OPC), referring to crime committed online with a financial orientation such as online frauds, scams, and phishing, continues to increase. According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, the number of reported complaints about OPC have increased by approximately sixteen fold from 16,838 cases in 2000 to 288,012 cases in 2015, and referred financial losses have also increased about sixty times from $17.8 million in 2001 to $1 billion in 2015. The increase in OPC might be directly related to advanced online accessibility due to the accelerated …