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This paper studies interjurisdictional competition in the fight against crime and its impact on occupational choice and the allocation of capital. In a world where capital is mobile, jurisdictions are inhabited by individuals who choose to become workers or criminals. Because the return of the two occupations depends on capital, and because investment in capital in a jurisdiction depends on its...

Thoroughly and consistently calculating losses from computer intrusions is a difficult endeavor because security incidents are characterized by intangible harms like interference with system availability and interference with the integrity of data. These harms can be difficult to translate into monetary terms. More easily measured are labor and hardware costs associated with repairing and resto...

The Space Transition Theory (Jaishankar 2008) presupposes that people behave differently in the cyber world from the physical world amongst other postulates that seek to explain cyber criminal behavioural patterns. (Wall 2001) categorized cyber crime into the four main types of cyber trespass, cyber deception and theft, cyber pornography and cyber violence. This research sought test the postula...

INTRODUCTION The future security of societies that depend increasingly on networks is contingent upon how our complex human and technical systems evolve. New network technologies including the Internet favour fragmentation into many loosely connected open and closed communities governed by many different principles. Network communities are subject to highly unpredictable emergent behaviours, ma...

Since the advent of Internet, Internet and finance are becoming more closely integrated. In 2014, banking industry paid around $65 billion in regulatory penalties, with misbehavior anti-financial crime failures acting as key prosecution justifications. Many financial institutions finding that it is difficult to properly handle growing requirements their current processes infrastructure, leading...

Abstract This article takes a political ecology approach to understanding the integration of conservation with security in tackling illegal wildlife trade. It builds on debates militarization by connecting it dynamics global environmental politics, specifically discursive and material support from donors, governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The combined effects highly competitive...

A number of analytical techniques (such as the Gini coeffi cient and the Lorenz curve) can identify unequal distributions in crime frequency among sub-areas within a study region; however, these tools are often aspatial and say nothing about the relationships between spatial units. Using dispersion analysis, a technique that measures the relative dispersion of a crime increase across a region a...