Organizations and cyber crime: An analysis of the nature of groups engaged in cyber crime

International Journal of Cyber Criminology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-20

  Broadhurst, Roderic ^a   Grabosky, Peter ^a   Alazab, Mamoun ^a   Chon, Steve ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crime groups; Cyber offenders; Cybercrime; Internet crime; Online offenders; Organized crime; State crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901820106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09742891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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