The New Technology of Financial Crime: New Crime Commission Technology, New Victims, New Offenders, and New Strategies for Prevention and Control

Financial crime is a trillion-dollar industry that is likely to continue to grow exponentially unless new strategies of prevention and control can be developed. This book covers a wide range of topics related to financial crime commission, victimization, prevention, and control. The chapters included in this book closely examine cyber-victimization in their investigation of online fraud schemes that have resulted in new categories of crime victims as the result of identity theft, romance fraud schemes, phishing, ransomware, and other technology-enabled online fraud strategies. This book also offers new strategies for both financial crime prevention and financial crime control designed to reduce both offending and victimization. It will be a great resource for researchers and students of Criminology, Sociology, Law, and Information Technology.

The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Victims & Offenders.

Donald Rebovich, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Utica College, is the Executive Director of the Center for Identity Management & Information Protection (CIMIP). Prior to coming to Utica College, Dr Rebovich served as Research Director for the National White-Collar Crime Center (NW3C) & the American Prosecutors Research Institute of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA).

James M. Byrne, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the Director of the Global Community Corrections Initiative (www.globcci.org) and Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Victims & Offenders. Dr Byrne is the co-editor, The Global Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Institutional and Community Corrections (Routledge, 2021), and is currently completing a new book, The Technology Revolution in Criminal Justice: A Global Review (Routledge, forthcoming).