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Combating Cyber Victimisation: Cybercrime Prevention

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The global penetration of networked communications has exposed different areas of society to the threats of cybercrimes. These levels of society include, but are not limited to, nations and communities. Today, individual organisations and governments are significantly more likely to be victimised through the use of information and communications technologies than experience conventional forms of victimisation (UNODC 2013).

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  1. University of East London, London, UK

    Abdelrahman Abdalla Al-Ali

  2. University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK

    Amer Nimrat

  3. University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Bab Ezzouar, Algeria

    Chafika Benzaid

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Al-Ali, A.A., Nimrat, A., Benzaid, C. (2018). Combating Cyber Victimisation: Cybercrime Prevention. In: Jahankhani, H. (eds) Cyber Criminology. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97181-0_16

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