Opportunity and Self-Control: Do they Predict Multiple Forms of Online Victimization?

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Article

Publication Date

7-28-2018

Publication Title

American Journal of Criminal Justice

DOI

10.1007/s12103-018-9447-5

ISSN

1936-1351

Abstract

This study investigates the predictors of four types of cybercrime victimization/experiences: online harassment, hacking, identity theft, and receiving nude photos or explicit content. The effects of victimization opportunity and low self-control are examined as the primary independent variables in logistic regression analyses of data collected from a large sample of undergraduates enrolled at two universities in the United States. Results suggest that opportunity is positively related to each of the four types of online victimization, and that low self-control is associated with person-based, but not computer-based, forms of cybercrime. These findings speak to the utility, and also the limitations, of these perspectives in understanding cybercrime victimization risk among college students, and to the potentially criminogenic nature of the Internet.

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