Asier Moneva

TL;DR: Results indicate that reports of cybercrime have increased during the COVID-19 outbreak, and these were remarkably large during the two months with the strictest lockdown policies and measures.

TL;DR: Findings from the current study allow us to demonstrate how digital microenvironment patterns defined by metadata can be used to create a computer algorithm capable of detecting online hate speech.

TL;DR: The unprecedented changes in routine activities brought about by COVID-19 and the associated lockdown measures contributed to a reduction in opportunities for predatory crimes in outdoor physical activities as discussed by the authors, leading to an increase in the number of predatory crimes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined fraud in the Spanish and European context to further understand its nature, prevalence, evolution and role in the overall panorama of property crime, and they explored the extent to which we are experiencing widespread fraud underreporting to police and the implications of this for crime control policy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors question Farrell and Birks' assertion of the emergence of cybercrime as an invalid explanation for the crime drop and propose two non-exclusive hypotheses that highlight the essential role of cyberspace as an environment that has shifted criminal opportunities from physical to virtual space.