Organized crime in cyberspace: How traditional organized criminal groups exploit the online peer-to-peer lending market in China

How do traditional organized criminal groups run their offline businesses on the internet? Drawing on interview data, news reports and interactions with illegal moneylenders, this article examines how loan sharks use the online peer-to-peer lending market to lend money to Chinese students at exorbit...

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Authors: Wang, Peng (Author) ; Su, Mei (Author) ; Wang, Jingyi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: [2021]
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 303-324
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Organized crime
Internet
loan-sharking
Information sharing
cyberviolence
relational repression
the online peer-to-peer lending market