Criminal clickbait: a panel data analysis on the attractiveness of online advertisements offering stolen data.

Introduction: Few studies have examined the sales of stolen account credentials on darkweb markets. In this study, we tested how advertisement characteristics affect the popularity of illicit online advertisements offering account credentials. Unlike previous criminological research, we take a novel approach by assessing the applicability of knowledge on regular consumer behaviours instead of theories explaining offender behaviour.

Cyber-Offending and Traditional Offending over the Life-Course: an Empirical Comparison.

Purpose: This paper argues that cyber-dependent offending differs in important ways from other types of offending, which poses challenges to established life-course criminological explanations. Moreover, this study examines to what extent life circumstances in both private and professional life are differentially related to cyber-offending and traditional offending.

Methods: This study analyzes longitudinal registration data of all adults who have been at least once suspected of a cybercrime ( = 870) and/or a traditional crime ( = 1,144,740) in the Netherlands during the period of 2000-2012.

Differential reporting of mixed DNA profiles and its impact on jurists' evaluation of evidence. An international analysis.

While DNA analysis is considered by many the gold standard in forensic science, there is ample room for variation in interpretation and reporting. This seems especially the case when working with (complex) mixed DNA profiles. Two consecutive studies on differential DNA reporting were conducted.