Internet romance fraud is a serious international crime made possible by the use of internet and social media dating sites. It relationship based on mutual love shared between victims their offender partners, without victim knowing that offenders have criminal intent to defraud victim. This affect in developed countries who are referred as ‘clients’ offenders’ partners. Offenders neutralization...

Measuring how much cybercrime exists is typically done by first defining cybercrime and then quantifying how many cases fit that definition. The drawback is that definitions vary across countries and many cybercrimes are recorded as traditional crimes. An alternative is to keep traditional definitions of crime and quantify the amount of associated information and communication technologies (ICT...

The crime detection of sexual violence needs to be optimized and improved. This study aims substantiate, elaborate, apply in practice the method a transformed interview (based on mathematical modeling) obtain information about violence. For first time transformed-interview was used while studying hidden (latent) victims who do not want report law enforcement agencies because they fact against t...

Purpose Using observational and experimental designs, the purpose of this study was to explore if power relation between offender victim incivility level perceived severity were associated with bystanders’ intentions help when witnessing workplace incivility. Design/methodology/approach In Study 1, 160 participants completed a questionnaire where they described recent uncivil incident had witne...

This article undertakes a victimological critique of media coverage, social commentary and parliamentary debate on the prosecution former British soldier Dennis Hutchings for death an unarmed vulnerable adult in Northern Ireland 1974. It argues that careful reframing events actors by media, politicians veterans’ movement has obfuscated perceptions victimhood creating climate favours perpetrator...

Criminal profiling, referred to as offender profiling, psychological profiling or criminal personality profiling, is the derivation of inferences about a criminal from aspects of the crime (s) that he or she has committed. Available information from a crime and crime scene theoretically should point to a psychological portrait of the unknown perpetrator inferring such things as the offender’s m...

The consequences of hate incidents are far greater than transgressions without an underlying bias motive. powerful emotional and psychological effect observed in victims rests the perpetrator attacking identity or unchangeable characteristic a victim. Within South Africa, these effects compounded by country’s legacy discrimination oppression; thus, potential victimisation within this context ex...

In political and media rhetoric throughout Europe, migrants refugees are often linked to crime; especially gender-based crimes. This paper, focusing on Hungary, examines whether discourses perpetuate this image what extent do other attributes of offenders (such as ethnicity class) influence the way represent those involved in rape cases. The 720 articles sampled for study were analysed using qu...

This article examines how the interconnections between morality, aggression, and social activism are discursively articulated in two data sets: a face-to-face sport controversy corpus of evaluative online comments response to reports said controversy. The study adopted combined transmedia, critical, intersectional perspective that revealed divergent interpretations as an aggression threatened m...