Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing: evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services

We document and evaluate emerging policing strategies that are reshaping how centralised law enforcement agencies deal with online cybercrime markets. The first of these we term infrastructural policing, drawn from law enforcement campaigns to disrupt international drug markets and involving targeti...

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Main Author: Collier, Ben (Author)
Contributors: Thomas, Daniel R. ; Clayton, Richard ; Hutchings, Alice ; Chua, Yi Ting
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Policing and society
Year: 2022, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 103-124
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