Abstract

A Cross-National Study on Cybercrime: Incident, Suspect and Victim Characteristics for Digital and Traditional Fraud in the Netherlands and Kolkata, India

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  • Computers and the internet have become essential in areas such as professional life, interpersonal communication, finances, and leisure

  • Nationality: country of birth (i.e. Dutch, Indian or Information was available for 274 fraud cases (281 suspects and 278 victims) in The Netherlands and 62 fraud cases (203 suspects and 62 victims) in Kolkata

  • There are two main types of fraud modus operandi (Table 1). 23.3% of frauds in Kolkata were digital whilst this number is higher in The Netherlands (40.1%; p

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Introduction

Computers and the internet have become essential in areas such as professional life, interpersonal communication, finances, and leisure. Most scholars agree that the Internet has had a major impact upon criminality [1,2]. The increased use of computers and the fact that internet connects (almost) everybody to (almost) everybody else in the world has made crime considerably easier to perpetrate [3,4,5,6]. It is plausible that criminal might have adapted to the increasingly digitized world and that this permeates traditional crime [2]. Many sources make claims about the prevalence of cybercrime, but do not clearly define what has been measured. The imprecision of victim surveys [7] and the non-standardized description of cybercrime incidents by commercial companies [8,9] and the police might explain the lack of valid figures [10]

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