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The book begins with an introductory chapter that sets the scene: providing an overview of the core principles associated with crime prevention targeting that will be drawn upon throughout. It chronicles the unique aspects of offending within digital contexts, and in particular, explicates offending lifecycles, and flags significant points of divergence from what is broadly accepted for offline forms of offending. Next, it provides a methodological account of the approach taken in researching this book, before concluding with an overview of chapters to come.
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Such activities can be distinguished from cyber-enabled crimes which are regarded as ‘traditional’ crimes that are augmented through the use of computers or networking technologies (e.g. fraud) (McGuire and Dowling 2013).
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Brewer, R., de Vel-Palumbo, M., Hutchings, A., Holt, T., Goldsmith, A., Maimon, D. (2019). Setting the Scene. In: Cybercrime Prevention. Crime Prevention and Security Management. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31069-1_1
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