Steven Kemp

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: 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 examined the effects of three lockdown orders implemented in Northern Ireland between April 2015 and May 2021 on crime data recorded by the police and found that cyber-enabled fraud and cyberdependent crime rose alongside lockdown-induced changes in online habits and remained higher than before COVID-19.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified fraud as one of the most prevalent property crimes in the Internet era and underreporting represents a challenge to prevention and policing. Like fraud, underreporting is also a serious problem.