Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.
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The role of online technologies in organised crime is growing, as it is in wider society. Traditionally, organised criminals would threaten or (in the UK) much less often resort to the use of violence and intimidation to...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Cardiff University
The project specifically addresses the role of online technologies in organized crime, which is one of the new technologies mentioned in the question.
The complicated interworking of players/parties and technology, embedded in society's legal and cultural context, implies that cybercrime research should consists of (and preferably integrate) multiple disciplines: it mu...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Newcastle University
**Vision for the Project** The UK National Fraud and Cyber Crime Dashboard (NFB) shows that, to-date in 2021, organisations have been impacted by 57,304 fraud-related cybercrimes, costing £637.4m. There has been a...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: FORENSIC PATHWAYS LIMITED
The project aims to develop techniques for the detection and prediction of cybercrime/fraud, which partially addresses the question about the threats posed by new technologies.