Examining the risk reduction strategies of actors in online criminal markets

Global Crime

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 81-103

  Holt, Thomas J ^a   Smirnova, Olga ^b   Chua, Yi Ting ^a   Copes, Heith ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

fraud; hacking; identity theft; rational choice theory; risk avoidance; stolen data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926525114     PISSN: 17440572     EISSN: 17440580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2015.1013211     Document Type: Article

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