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European Network for Open Criminology @opencriminology.bsky.social · 14d

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Asier Moneva @asiermoneva.com · 28d

🚨 It's been a long time in the making, but I'm happy it's finally out!

Standing on the shoulders of giants, in this preprint we propose an avenue for theoretical development in the field of environmental (cyber)criminology with practical applications for crime analysis.

bsky.app/profile/soca...

The title page of the preprint.

Title: The Topology of Cyberspace and Cybercrime Journeys: A Framework for Analyzing Online Offender Mobility

Authors: Asier Moneva, Stijn Ruiter, and Wim Bernasco

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel framework for analyzing online offender mobility. Drawing on multidisciplinary insights, we extend two established criminological models for studying offline offending—the geometry of crime and crime journeys—by adapting their core concepts to cyberspace and developing a topology in which the cyber place is defined and becomes the unit of analysis. Just as offenders travel before, during, and after committing crime offline, we argue they also undertake trips before, during, and after committing cybercrime, and that like offline journeys these cybercrime journeys comprise identifiable and measurable components. We further distinguish between human journeys (what offenders perceive) and data journeys (what happens to the information they transmit). We explicitly demonstrate how concepts from the geometry of crime and crime journeys translate from offline to online crime and mobility. This approach enables the systematic formulation of research questions and the measurement of behavioral patterns, facilitating the generation and accumulation of knowledge on cybercrime offending. The paper illustrates the framework’s theoretical relevance within environmental criminology and its practical application for cybercrime analysis through concrete examples.

Schematic representation of a cybercrime journey. Hindu-Arabic numerals represent the sequence of cyber places visited by the user, while Roman numerals indicate the sequence of infrastructure nodes traversed by the data.

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Aug 31

Don't know yet, but I happen to have booked an Airbnb in Exarchia, real cool vibe neighborhood. We walked up the hill in our local park. Great view!

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Aug 31

We made it. Great trip. Highly recommended

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Aug 31

Bus from Patras to Kiato where we get on the train for the last leg of the journey to Athens

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Aug 30

Night two will be at this beast

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Aug 30

We're now on this high-speed train, which the Dutch and Belgians might recognize as the Fyra train. It only operated a few months and was sent back to Italy due to teething problems. Here it runs smoothly so far.

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Aug 30

We spent the night in Milan. Booked a hotel close to the train station, because we leave early today. Only one train, Milan to Bari.

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Aug 29

Next leg: Brussels-Cologne

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Aug 28

Beginning my journey to Athens for #ESC / #Eurocrim! Tonight I head to Brussels, where my brother will join me for the rest of the trip, just like in past years. A tradition we truly cherish.

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Jun 26

Writing good prompts is an important new skill we should teach our students (and ourselves)

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Jun 23

Tim Verlaan and I just published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology about our pre-registered quasi-experimental evaluation study of a place-based policing intervention in Amsterdam. doi.org/10.1007/s112... #ebp

Evaluating place-based policing in Amsterdam - Journal of Experimental Criminology

Objectives Evaluate the impact of a place-based, community and problem-oriented policing intervention in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Methods This evaluation is guided by the EMMIE framework, and its m...

doi.org

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Jun 17

De Nederlandse Crime Severity Index (CSI), een nieuwe manier om criminaliteit te rangschikken, nu online: nscr.nl/de-nederland...

De Crime Severity Index (CSI)

De openbare en breed toepasbare Nederlandse Crime Severity Index (CSI) is een instrument om criminaliteit op basis van ernst te rangschikken.

nscr.nl

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · May 17

"je" was generiek bedoeld.

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · May 16

Ik hoorde het ook. Je kunt het vervelend vinden, een miskenning zelfs, maar dit is niet de eerste keer dat zoiets gebeurt.
Misschien toch ook nuttig als we allemaal eens in de spiegel kijken.

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · May 9

Happy Europe Day #EU

Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Apr 2

#prutser

Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Mar 13

According to Heliyon, an open access journal from Cell Press @cp-heliyon.bsky.social, I am an expert on ovarian cancer. My wife can attest I know very little about ovaries, and I am trying to avoid cancer too.

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Feb 6

Cybercrime decision-making PhD candidate Danielle Stibbe has published another pre-registered online field experiment in Deviant Behavior: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Jan 29

www.veiligheidenveerkracht.nl/projecten/sc...

SCRIPT - Centre of Expertise Veiligheid & Veerkracht

Het realiseren, versnellen en opschalen van de methode crime scripting in het veiligheidsdomein.

www.veiligheidenveerkracht.nl

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Jan 29

Kick-off meeting SCRIPT-project: www.nwo.nl/en/projects/...

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Jan 25

E-reader it is

Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Jan 25

Ctrl-P

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Jan 24

I'm sure you're aware of the many digital copies out there.

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Dec 28

Mooi nieuw resultaat van samenwerking politie en wetenschap: met collega Vana Hutter en twee bestuursleden van de SEBP-NL, Mieke Struik en Valérie Peeck, publiceerden we in Cahiers Politiestudies de bijdrage 'Evidence-Based Policing: Een samenspel van politiepraktijk en politiewetenschap'.

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Nov 6

Discover the next big thing in sci-fi! My friend Humberto just launched an epic Kickstarter with amazing graphics. Don’t miss your chance to support it. #Kickstarter #SciFi

#PHOTOTAXIS

seven planets / seven racers / seven stories / ONE winner

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...

Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Oct 17

Forgot to mention that the paper belongs to the special issue "Calling the Police: Theoretical Insights and Practical Implications" guest-edited by David Buil-Gil and @drlaurahuey.bsky.social

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Oct 17

Excited to share that our PhD candidate Roos Jansen just got her first paper published in Crime Science.
It's on satisfaction with police among crime-reporting victims.

doi.org/10.1186/s401...

Crime reporting and victim satisfaction with the police

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Oct 15

Wil jij weten hoe crime scripting werkt, voor wie en onder welke omstandigheden? Heb je kwantitatieve en kwalitatieve skills? Lijkt het je leuk maatschappelijk relevant interdisciplinair onderzoek te doen?

Dan ben je wellicht de promovendus die we zoeken!

www.academictransfer.com/nl/346077/pr...

Promovendus Onderzoeksproject SCRIPT

Het NSCR is op zoek naar een gemotiveerde promovendus voor onderzoek binnen het NWO-project SCRIPT. Wil jij meer weten over hoe de methode crime scripting werkt, voor wie en onder welke omstandigheden...

www.academictransfer.com

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Stijn Ruiter @stijnruiter.bsky.social · Sep 16

Bye bye Bucharest!

Now on the nighttrain from Bucharest to Vienna

but oh irony...

cannot continue by train after Budapest due to weather extremes that are most probably caused by climate change...

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