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Andreas (2011, p. 404) observed that drug traffickers are “routinely defying borders, mocking law enforcement, and sometimes even violently challenging the state”. This statement is even more relevant to illicit online activities, in which the criminals can engage in such activities in a borderless cyberspace by living in countries with corrupt and inefficient law enforcement and judicial institutions and a lack of international collaborations and cooperation.
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Kshetri, N. (2013). Technological and Global Forces Shaping Cybercrime and Cybersecurity in the Global South. In: Cybercrime and Cybersecurity in the Global South. International Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137021946_2
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