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A number of online case studies have been presented so far in this book. The case studies presented convenience themes for external offenders (movie pirates, cryptocurrency abusers, espionage, corona fraud) and internal offenders (embezzlement, money laundering, bank fraud, manipulation).

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    Petter Gottschalk

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Gottschalk, P., Hamerton, C. (2022). Offline Case Studies. In: White-Collar Crime Online. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82132-6_10

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