Article Review #2

Comprehending Cybercrime

Darian Church

CYSE 201S

Professor Diwakar Yalpi

5 November 2024

Title: Integrated Model of Cybercrime Dynamics: A Comprehensive Framework for Understanding Offending and Victimization in the Digital Realm

Author: Dr. Troy Smith

Journal: International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence and Cybercrime

Publication Year: 2024

            This article in this journal is about the creation of a new framework that we can use to categorize and better understand cybercrime. The study asks the question of “How we can better understand and prevent the criminal and victim relationship in cybercrime?”. The research methods used are the archival and conclusive research method. This stems from the fact that the majority of the research was taken from different articles, journals, books, etc. The research was then analyzed and summarized to help create the framework that author has proposed. The framework is a way to comprehend the complexity of the traits in cybercriminals and how these traits lead to the increase in cyber offending and victimization. This study relates to the principles of relativism, skepticism, and determinism. It relates to relativism because the topic of how further increase in technological advancement results in the increase of cyber offending and

victimization. Through, skepticism questions like “How effective are the current theories at realizing the complexity of cybercriminal behavior?”. And the study relates to determinism because it examines how lack of guardianship and online victim manners lead to cyber offending. It also expresses that online behavior, and cyber-attacks can increase probability a connection between the victim and criminal in cyber space. The study can be used in a variety of way to contribute to society. First, it can be implemented in cyber investigation to assist in understanding the mind of the criminal, which leads to the decrease and preventing cybercrime. Second, researchers can use the framework to further study the behaviors of cybercriminal and increase knowledge on how they link into cybercrime. Third, this research can be implemented in policies to “reduce cybercrime victimization and offending through education” (2024 p.14). This study can be used to help people such as elderly citizens who are preyed upon, due to little technical knowledge, by cyber criminals. This can also improve the lives of people who are victims of cyber harassment, by implementing policies aimed to catch malicious fake profiles. This study highlights the importance of understanding cybercrime through an increased understanding of victimization. Through, investigating victimization we can find new similarity of attacks that can help prevent cybercrime. The Maslow Hierarchy of Needs can also be in play as the study makes a claim that identifying esteem needs like gratification play a big role in the behavior of criminals. In conclusion, the study provides a type of solution to the greater understanding of cyber offending as a whole and makes an argument for the evolution of our understanding of the complex form of the cyber world.