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Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud
Victims and Offenders, 2022 This article assesses 3,259 romance fraud reports made by individuals to Scamwatch (Australian online reporting portal for fraud), between July 2018 – July 2019 (inclusive).
Cassandra Cross, Murray Lee
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The Use of Military Profiles in Romance Fraud Schemes
Victims and Offenders, 2021 Romance fraud occurs when offenders use the guise of a genuine relationship to defraud a victim, typically via online communications. Research has focused on the general structure of romance frauds, but few scholars have considered the potential link ...
Thomas Holt, Cassandra Cross
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Romance baiting, cryptorom and ‘pig butchering’: an evolutionary step in romance fraud
Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 2023 Romance fraud uses the guise of a genuine relationship to deceive a victim into transferring often large amounts of money to an offender/s. Romance fraud has been in the top three categories of financial loss for Australian victims over the past decade ...
Cassandra Cross
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Teaching Note: Reading the Romance; Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature
Radical Teacher, 2022 The phenomenal success of romances has naturally stirred the contempt of high culture critics, and more recently the concern of feminists, who have generally understood these narratives as promoting a kind of false consciousness, coating patriarchal ...
Richard Ohmann
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To pay or not to pay: An exploratory analysis of sextortion in the context of romance fraud
Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2023 Romance fraud, where an offender uses the guise of a genuine relationship for monetary gain, affects millions globally. Further to financial losses, evidence suggests victims may also be targeted for sextortion, where the offender either has images or ...
Cassandra Cross, Karen M. Holt, T. Holt
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More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime
Global crime, 2023 Romance fraud occurs when an offender uses the guise of a genuine relationship to defraud an individual for financial gain. Known statistics indicate that millions are lost each year to this form of fraud. However, the potential for romance fraud victims
Cassandra Cross, T. Holt
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French as a Heritage Language in Germany
Languages, 2021 Research on child heritage speakers (HSs) has shown successful language acquisition, comparable to monolinguals, whereas research on adult HSs often claims incomplete acquisition. This seems to be an evident contradiction in the current state of research,
Johanna Stahnke +2 more
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Languages, 2022 The starting point of this article is the occurrence of determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers like (en) que, ‘(in) that’, instead of (en) el que, ‘(in) which’, in Yucatecan Spanish (southeast Mexico).
Patrick Auhagen, Melanie Uth
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Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis comparatively examines a selection of twenty-first century sheikh romances and Middle English romances from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that imagine an erotic relationship occurring between east and west.
Burge, Amy
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Languages, 2021 Adult L2 acquisition has often been framed within research on the Critical Period Hypothesis, and the age factor is one of the most researched topics of SLA. However, several researchers suggest that while age is the most important factor for differences
Fanny Forsberg Lundell, Klara Arvidsson
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