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Routine Activities In A Virtual Space: A Taiwanese Case Of An Atm Hacking Spree., Ming-Li Hsieh, Shun-Yung Kevin Wang
Routine Activities In A Virtual Space: A Taiwanese Case Of An Atm Hacking Spree., Ming-Li Hsieh, Shun-Yung Kevin Wang
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Routine activity theory (RAT) was initially proposed to explain shifts in urban crime rates in the late 1970s, and has subsequently been applied to predictions of predatory criminal or victimization events. Despite a number of studies attempting to apply RAT to the vast array of crimes now taking place in a virtual environment such as phishing, fraud, malware infection, identify theft, computer viruses and cyber stalking on the Internet in Western countries, little is known about whether RAT could address automatic teller machine (ATM) hacking in an Asian setting. The current study applies RAT in order to examine a high-profile …