The article I will be reviewing is “Defining Cybercrime in terms of Routine Activity and Spatial Distribution: issues and concerns,” by Troy Smith and Nikolaos Stamatakis. This article relates to the principles of social science because they are studying the social, psychological, and economic effects of cybercrime. This article is a big debate by the authors between dubbed cybercrime and ‘terrestrial crime’. Their research questions focused on the applicability of traditional crime theories using Routine Activity Theory, (RAT). “The explanatory schema of RAT is based on the presupposition that the spatial and temporal variables, which define person, objects and activities, are essential predictors to successful criminal events,’’ (yar, 2005). RAT was the type of research method used and it was aimed to identify concerns around it crime in cyberspace. The types of data and analysis were based on spatial factors, “the cultures within different communities vary and translate into people in each geographic location having unique beliefs, desires, and expectations,” (smith, Stamatakis 445). This article relates to the topics in class in the sense that it is based around the correlation of cybercrime and the routine activity theory in cyberspace. It talks a lot about how technology is integrated into everything we do from the way we communicate to the way we bank. This article relates to the challenges we face today because someone is clearly doing these cybercrimes and they applied some elements of RAT to find who is the victim. This study relates to the concerns in society because an element of RAT is guardianship, if people aren’t being watched while they are committing crimes then they will keep doing them because they know they will not be caught. If people are being watched and understand the punishments that come with cybercrime then they will back down. The overall contribution this study has to the studies to society is the underattendance that cybercrime is a type of crime that is growing rapidly. 

works cited

smith, troy, & Stamatakis, N. (2020, July 2). Defining Cybercrime in terms of Routine Activity and Spatial Distribution: issues and concerns. Retrieved September 30, 2021, from https://cybercrimejournal.com/SmithStamatakisVol14Issue2IJCC2020.pdf.