Responding to Cybercrime: Current Trends. From the Editor-in-Chief

Abstract

Police Practice and Research (PPR) prides itself on presenting current and innovative police research as well as operational and administrative practices from around the world. While trends in policing practices have changed from the early Peelian principles through the political and reform eras, to the community era of the 1980s, we now see a paradigm shift in policing that focuses on a new era of uncertainty. While ‘traditional’ crime problems such as illicit drugs, property crime, and violence still remain, often the target, method, or means have changed. For example, we are now seeing fraud moving to an online domain along with sexual assault and bullying. Indeed, organized criminals are turning to the internet for funding and international services. It is essential for policing practice and research to remain on the forefront of such issues. Additional to the changes in traditional crime problems, police also need to respond to and prevent new and emerging crime problems such as new economic and technological crimes. Police Practice and Research continues to lead the discourse in presenting current and innovative police research by presenting this special issue on cybercrime. It contributes to the essential policing discourse by focusing on the understanding of, responses to, and prevention of cybercrime Show more