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Cybercrime and cybersecurity in India: causes, consequences and implications for the future

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Cybercrime is rising rapidly in India. Developing economies such as India face unique cybercrime risks. This paper examines cybercrime and cybersecurity in India. The literature on which this paper draws is diverse, encompassing the work of economists, criminologists, institutionalists and international relations theorists. We develop a framework that delineates the relationships of formal and informal institutions, various causes of prosperity and poverty and international relations related aspects with cybercrime and cybersecurity and apply it to analyze the cybercrime and cybersecurity situations in India. The findings suggest that developmental, institutional and international relations issues are significant to cybercrime and cybersecurity in developing countries.

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  1. It is important to recognize that, as is the case of any underground economy [17], estimating the size of a country’s cybercrime industry and its ingredients such as reporting rate is a challenging task. Cybercrime-related studies and surveys are replete with methodological shortcomings, conceptual confusions, logical challenges and statistical problems [18].

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Kshetri, N. Cybercrime and cybersecurity in India: causes, consequences and implications for the future. Crime Law Soc Change 66, 313–338 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-016-9629-3

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