The Firm. Organizational Logic and Criminal Culture on a Shifting Terrain

Hobbs, Dick

doi:10.1093/bjc/41.4.549

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“…Therefore, the exchanges between cybercriminals, at least in the underground economy, do not place emphasis on thick trust (Khodyakov 2007) or bonding capital (Lo 2010), that is, the strong interpersonal relationships such as families and close friends 5 . Rather, their relationships are built on thin trust (Khodyakov 2007) and these weak ties (Granovetter 1973) provide unique access to resources and opportunities outside of their immediate social circles (Burt 2000;Hobbs 2001;Pearson and Hobbs 2003;Lo 2010;Granovetter 1973;Uzzi 1997). Therefore, for cybercriminals to develop weak ties in the underground economy, they must be able to overcome the obstacles imposed by CMC on the transmission of social information that is necessary for them to develop thin trust.…”

Section: Trust and Criminal Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As proposed in various organised crime literatures (Cohen 1977;Pearson and Hobbs 2003;Hobbs 2001;Morselli and Petit 2007;McIllwain 1999;Van Calster 2006;Levi 2008;von Lampe and Johansen 2003;Lo 2010), the studying of organised crime should treat the relationships or "criminally exploitable ties" as the unit of analysis. This view is adopted in this paper.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since the existence of a collaborative tie requires the presence of trust (Coleman 1993;Gambetta 2000;Dasgupta 2000;Weerman 2003) and trust requires the mitigation of uncertainties, it can be seen that uncertainties are obstacles to collaborations. By applying transaction cost economics (Williamson 1979;1991;1993), uncertainty is treated in this paper as a transaction cost to a collaborative tie and it is assumed that cybercriminals have rational incentives for minimising this cost, an assumption that is implicit in many organised crime literatures regarding network structures (Williams 1998;Hobbs 2001;Pearson and Hobbs 2003;Morselli 2001;Morselli and Petit 2007;Kenny 2007;Lo 2010). Since previous studies demonstrate that the underground economy is thriving, this implies that cybercriminals have been able to minimise this cost sufficiently so that they are able to collaborate.…”

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Trust among cybercriminals? Carding forums, uncertainty and implications for policing

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Webber

Shadbolt

2013

Policing and Society

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At the beginning of the 21 st Century, before the power of online social networking became apparent, several studies speculated about the likely structure of organised cybercrime (Mann and Sutton 1998;Brenner 2002). In the light of new data on cybercriminal organisations, this paper sets out to revisit their claims. In collaboration with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), this paper examines the structure of organised cybercrime by analysing data from online underground markets previously in operation over the Internet. In order to understand the various structures of organised cybercrime which have manifested, theories are drawn from social psychology, organised crime and transaction cost economics (TCE). Since the focus is on how uncertainty is mitigated in trading among cybercriminals, uncertainty is treated as a cost to the transactions and is used as the unit of analysis to examine the mechanisms cybercriminals use to control two key sources of uncertainty: the quality of merchandise and the identity of the trader. The findings indicate that carding forums facilitate organised cybercrime because they offer a hybrid form of organisational structure that is able to address sources of uncertainty and minimise transaction costs to an extent that allows a competitive underground market to emerge. The findings from this study can be used to examine other online applications that could facilitate the online underground economy.

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Section: Trust and Criminal Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Trust among cybercriminals? Carding forums, uncertainty and implications for policing

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2013

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“…Por el contrario, Block (1991), Hobbs (1998a) y Rawlinson (1998) cuestionan esta imagen y su consecuente reducción de la complejidad de la delincuencia organizada a una conspiración extranjera. Sus respectivos trabajos pueden ser entendidos como parte de la tradición intelectual de las "criminologías del sí mismo".…”

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“…Un cuestionamiento mayor al enfoque situacional es que no aborda los contextos sociales más amplios que pueden permitir o impedir la reproducción de la criminalidad y la victimización. Hobbs (2000), por ejemplo, sostiene que la actividad delictiva organizada debe ser examinada específicamente en lo "local", habitado por "fraternidades" delictivas particulares -aliazas, "firmas", redes de parentesco-. Por otra parte, Goodey (2000) identifica una tendencia en la prevención situacional y en los enfoques más ortodoxos sobre el caso de tráfico de personas (considerado como un caso ejemplar de DTO) a criminalizar mujeres del centro y este de Europa, quienes deberían ser vistas, más apropiadamente, como vícti-mas envueltas en la industria de la droga y la ilegalidad.…”

Section: Las Ambigüedades De La Delincuencia Transnacional Organizadaunclassified