The current study employs group-based trajectory modeling to assess the longitudinal attack
patterns of new hackers involved in website defacement. Specifically, we track the activity of …

Crime research has repeatedly shown that small proportions of offenders are responsible for
large proportions of crimes. While there is a substantial body of evidence for this 'offending …

Longitudinal criminological studies greatly improved our understanding of the longitudinal
patterns of criminality. These studies, however, focused almost exclusively on traditional …

Extensive criminological research has investigated the effectiveness of law enforcement
efforts to prevent offenders' reoffending and effect changes in criminal behavior patterns …

Over the past four decades, research on hackers has widely propagated within the social
sciences. Although this area of scholarship yields rich insight into the interpersonal …

This volume highlights the central role of the human factor in cybercrime and the need to
develop a more interdisciplinary research agenda to understand better the constant …

This study aims to deepen the understanding of software piracy through a developmental
perspective and risk and protective factors approach. We employ group-based trajectory …

Website defacement is an illegal electronic act of changing a website. In this paper, robust
machine learning classifiers' capabilities were exploited to select the best input feature set …

Cybercrime has been on the rise since the internet became widespread in the 1990s,
affecting individuals as well as private organizations and public agencies. There is an …

Existing counterterrorism policy is mostly focused on preventing violent extremism. The
problem is violent extremism is rare. Most extremists will never engage in violence. Some …