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      Covid-19: a catalyst for cybercrime?

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          While the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is keeping the world on tenterhooks, the last few months have also led to a new wave of cybercrime. The following article analyzes the background and manifestations of pandemic-related cybercrimes and shows how our criminal law systems are able to deal with current challenges in the age of the coronavirus.

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          Cybercrime in America amid COVID-19: the Initial Results from a Natural Experiment

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          The COVID-19 pandemic has radically altered life, killing hundreds of thousands of people and leading many countries to issue “stay-at-home” orders to contain the virus’s spread. Based on insights from routine activity theory (Cohen & Felson 1979), it is likely that COVID-19 will influence victimization rates as people alter their routines and spend more time at home and less time in public. Yet, the pandemic may affect victimization differently depending on the type of crime as street crimes appear to be decreasing while domestic crimes may be increasing. We consider a third type of crime: cybercrime. Treating the pandemic as a natural experiment, we investigate how the pandemic has affected rates of cybervictimization. We compare pre-pandemic rates of victimization with post-pandemic rates of victimization using datasets designed to track cybercrime. After considering how the pandemic may alter routines and affect cybervictimization, we find that the pandemic has not radically altered cyberroutines nor changed cybervictimization rates. However, a model using routine activity theory to predict cybervictimization offers clear support for the theory’s efficacy both before and after the pandemic. We conclude by considering plausible explanations for our findings.
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                Mohamed Bou Sleiman: Mohamed.bousleiman@justiz.niedersachsen.de
                Bio :
                Mohamed Bou Sleiman

                Dr., is a public prosecutor and spokesman for the cybercrime division of the Goettingen state attorney’s office

                Simon Gerdemann: simon.gerdemann@jura.uni-goettingen.de
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                Simon Gerdemann

                Dr., LL.M. (Berkeley), is a research fellow at the German Federal Parliament and the Goettingen Institute for Business and Media Law

                Journal
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Int. Cybersecur. Law Rev.
                Title: International Cybersecurity Law Review
                Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden )
                ISSN (Print): 2662-9720
                ISSN (Electronic): 2662-9739
                Publication date (Electronic): 22 April 2021
                Publication date PMC-release: 22 April 2021
                Pages: 1-9
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Public Prosecutor’s Office Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
                [2 ]GRID grid.7450.6, ISNI 0000 0001 2364 4210, Georg-August-University, ; Goettingen, Germany
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                Publisher ID: 24
                DOI: 10.1365/s43439-021-00024-9
                PMC ID: 8061155
                SO-VID: 15491e99-d46b-4eca-acf8-68c5a2625435
                Copyright © © The Author(s) 2021
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                Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

                History
                Date received : 19 February 2021
                Date revision received : 8 March 2021
                Date accepted : 10 March 2021
                Funding
                Funded by: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1018)
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                Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.

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                Keywords: corona,sars-cov-2,pandemic,phishing,malware,cyberattacks
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                Keywords: corona, sars-cov-2, pandemic, phishing, malware, cyberattacks

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