Exploring the implications of ‘low visibility’ specialist cyber-crime units

Using original data gathered within Australia, this paper argues that specialist cyber-policing units experience a pronounced level of low visibility within the police. This low visibility has three key dimensions. Firstly, there is low ‘vertical’ visibility as higher management and supervisors ofte...

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Main Author: Harkin, Diarmaid (Author)
Contributors: Whelan, Chad
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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