Leukfeldt Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2023

The online-offline nexus in cybercrime: Examining online and offline pathways into and out of cybercrime

Cybercrime is on the rise and the digitization of crime raises an array of fundamental questions. The CybercrimePathways Programme focuses on one of the major issues in criminology today: changing offline and online pathways in and out of cybercrime. Individuals do not become cybercriminals overnight. They tend to move through different stages, with each stage bringing them a little closer to crime involvement. The opposite is true for desistance, the process of quitting crime, whereby each step takes individuals further away from criminal activities. Together, these stages are called pathways. The overarching aim of this study is to acquire fundamental knowledge on pathways into and out of…

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