RT Article
T1 On the dynamics behind profit-driven cybercrime: from contextual factors to perceived group structures, and the workforce at the periphery
JF Global crime
VO 24
IS 2
SP 122
OP 144
A1 Paquet-Clouston, Masarah
A2 García, Sebastián
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1851097546
AB Through an inductive thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with experts, this study corroborates key findings on contextual and organisational dynamics behind profit-driven cybercrime. The findings pinpoint three contextual factors influencing individuals to participate in profit-driven cybercrime: lack of legal economic opportunities, lack of deterrents, and drifting means. The findings also highlight how experts perceive group structures of those behind profit-driven cybercrime: as organised, enterprise-like, loose networks, or communities. Experts’ narratives, moreover, emphasise the presence of a workforce at the periphery of cybercrime groups. Such a workforce is not actively involved in developing criminal schemes, yet it helps their orchestration by achieving necessary tasks such as writing texts or developing software. The study results confirm key insights on crime participation related to both cyber and non-cybercrime literature while also raising new research avenues, including questions concerning to what extent those forming the peripheral workforce are willing to participate in cybercrime.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 142-144
K1 Contextual factors
K1 criminal organisations
K1 Cybercrime
K1 Human factors
DO 10.1080/17440572.2023.2211521