Neutralizing Cyber Attacks: Techniques of Neutralization and Willingness to Commit Cyber Attacks

Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure by ideology-based hackers may have both significant financial costs and public safety consequences. Scholars have been increasingly using Sykes and Matza’s (1957) techniques of neutralization to better understand the commission of various forms of cybercrime,...

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Main Author: Bossler, Adam M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: American journal of criminal justice
Year: 2021, Volume: 46, Issue: 6, Pages: 911-934
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Keywords:
Computer intrusions
Cyber attacks
Cybercrime
Hacking
Website defacement
Drift
Techniques of neutralization

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