Cryptocurrencies and future financial crime
Crime Science, 2022 Background Cryptocurrency fraud has become a growing global concern, with various governments reporting an increase in the frequency of and losses from cryptocurrency scams.
Arianna Trozze +6 more
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BAKE: a novel framework for iterative security design for identifying criminally-exploitable vulnerabilities in biotechnology products [PDF]
Crime ScienceEmerging “in-body” monitoring, such as via ingestible devices, promises the future of personalised health, yet discussions of crime and security implications remain of low priority.
Mariam Elgabry +3 more
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Counterfeits on dark markets: a measurement between Jan-2014 and Sep-2015
Crime Science, 2023 Counterfeits harm consumers, governments, and intellectual property holders. They accounted for 3.3% of worldwide trades in 2016, having an estimated value of $509 billion in the same year.
Felix Soldner +2 more
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The effect of GPS refresh rate on measuring police patrol in micro-places
Crime Science, 2021 With the increasing prevalence of police interventions implemented in micro hot-spots of crime, the accuracy with which officer foot patrols can be measured is increasingly important for the robust evaluation of such strategies.
Oliver K. Hutt +2 more
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Glock Marking Barrels – An Evaluation of Individual and Subclass Characteristics
Теория и практика судебной экспертизы, 2021 Glock Inc. recently replaced the Enhanced Bullet Identification System (EBIS) with what Glock refers to as the Glock Marking Barrel. Casts and test fired bullets from thirty-five Glock Marking Barrels were evaluated for subclass and individual ...
O. Felix, J. Palma, T. Wharton
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A global analysis of the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime
Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 The stay-at-home restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 led to unparalleled sudden change in daily life, but it is unclear how they affected urban crime globally.
Amy E. Nivette +35 more
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Understanding the rise of fraud in England and Wales through field theory: Blip or flip?
Journal of Economic Criminology, 2023 There is a debate at the highest levels of government and civil society over whether the rise in fraud is a blip exacerbated by the pandemic or a more fundamental transformation (or flip) in the structure of crime.
Mark Button +3 more
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Anti-Asian Hate Crime During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Reproduction of Inequality
American Journal of Criminal Justice, 2020 Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is believed to have emerged in Wuhan, China in late December 2019 and began rapidly spreading around the globe throughout the spring months of 2020.
Angela R. Gover +2 more
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A systematic review of tagging as a method to reduce theft in retail environments
Crime Science, 2017 Background Retailers routinely use security tags to reduce theft. Presently, however, there has been no attempt to systematically review the literature on security tags.
Aiden Sidebottom +5 more
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Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020 This paper investigates the link between social media and hate crime. We show that antirefugee sentiment on Facebook predicts crimes against refugees in otherwise similar municipalities with higher social media usage. To establish causality, we exploit
Karsten Müller, Carlo Schwarz
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