Birds of a feather flock together: the Nigerian cyber fraudsters (yahoo boys) and hip hop artists

This study sets out to examine the ways Nigerian cyber-fraudsters (Yahoo-Boys) are represented in hip-hop music. The empirical basis of this article is lyrics from 18 hip-hop artists, which were subjected to a directed approach to qualitative content analysis and coded based on the moral disengageme...

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1. VerfasserIn: Lazarus, Suleman Ibrahim (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2018
In: Criminology, criminal justice, law & society
Jahr: 2018, Band: 19, Heft: 2, Seiten: 63-80
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