Cybercrimeology

VIVA las villains: Exploring Cybercrime against Businesses

Episode Summary

Dr David Buil Gil from the University of Manchester who I wanted to ask joins us to talk about about the paper "The Dynamics of Business, Cybersecurity and Cyber-Victimization: Foregrounding the Internal Guardian in Prevention" and so much more.

Episode Notes

About our Guest:

https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/david.builgil.html

Papers Mentioned in this Episode. 

Buil-Gil, D., Lord, N., & Barrett, E. (2021). The Dynamics of Business, Cybersecurity and Cyber-Victimization: Foregrounding the Internal Guardian in Prevention. Victims & Offenders, 16(3), 286-315. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15564886.2020.1814468

Leukfeldt, E. R., & Yar, M. (2016). Applying routine activity theory to cybercrime: A theoretical and empirical analysis. Deviant Behavior , 37(3), 263–280.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01639625.2015.1012409

Miró Llinares, F., & Johnson, S. D. (2017). Cybercrime and place: Applying environmental criminology to crimes in cyberspace. In G. J. N.Bruinsma & S. D.Johnson (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of environmental criminology (pp. 883–906). Oxford University Press.
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190279707.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190279707-e-39

Yar, M. (2005). The novelty of ‘cybercrime’: An assessment in light of routine activity theory. European Journal of Criminology , 2(4), 407–427.
https://doi.org/10.1177/147737080556056

Cyber Security Breaches Survey:
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8638 (2020)
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8480 (2019)
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8406 (2018)

 

Other:

The except at the start is from a 1960s film on Safety by general Motors that is part of the Prelinger Archive, a most valuable resource and can be found here:

https://archive.org/details/0257_Safest_Township_Anywhere_The_M04696_11_00_44_00

The track segment at the end of the episode was made with a little Korg NTS-1.  What a wonderful time to be alive, when such things are obtainable and can make being stuck inside for fear of infection so much more bearable.