Routine Online Activity and Internet Fraud Targeting: Extending the Generality of Routine Activity Theory

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Online Routines and Identity Theft Victimization (2013, methodology): “Early efforts to apply routine activity theory to crimes in which the victim and offender do not intersect in time and space have yielded mixed, but encouraging results (e.g., Choi 2008; Holt and Bossler 2009; Holtfreter et al. 2008; Marcum, Higgins, and Ricketts 2010; Pratt et al. 2010).”
Being Pursued Online (2011, background): “Furthermore, whereas some scholars have speculated as to the applicability of the theory, others have taken for granted the theoretical premise of an intersection in time and space and assumed that the theory should apply to cybercrimes without explaining why it should apply (e.g., Marcum, 2009; Mar”
Applying Routine Activity Theory to Cybercrime: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (2016, background): “Pratt, Holtfreter, and Reisig (2010) conducted a telephone survey among adults in Florida ( N = 992) in 2004 about targeting by 13 types of consumer fraud (for example, “ an investment deal that turned out to be phony ” and “ agreed to buy a product or a service for a certain price but was later…”