There are various theories that can be used to explain the causes of digital crimes. One of the theories that adequately fit for this is the routine activities theories. This is one of the theories that have connections with crime in general. There are also some of the non-digital crimes that are connected to this crime (Vito & Maahs, 2011).
The theory forms the primary causes for people to commit digital crimes. This is because it incorporates how these individuals commit digital crimes. It's related to crime in that for the offenders have choices of what victim that they have chosen to commit crimes on. For the criminals, they also change the criminal rates since they are a high number of offenders that are vulnerable and in this way, they consider them as an easy target. The motivation to commit …show more content…
One of the main reason is the surroundings in which the replicated offense is committed. There exist some of the surroundings that favor the digital crimes. These are inclusive of additional individuals that have common goals to make attacks. This calls for more advanced technologies, for example, those that require some email confirmations before people get access to the information. Offenders have also increased as they are aware that they are less risk and chances of being prosecuted are minimal. There is also the presence of indefinite lawful authority.
From the theory, there are also some of the reasons that lead to non-digital offense. Some of these reasons that lead to non-digital crimes are that there are reduced needs for lawful evidence and thus more people are attracted to commit the crimes. The other main reason is that the non-cyber offense does not attract more attention as less wealth is lost as compared to the case cyber offense. There are also more returns that come with the non-digital offense. The tasks required may be minimal but in turn, lead to more benefits, this attracts more
The theory forms the primary causes for people to commit digital crimes. This is because it incorporates how these individuals commit digital crimes. It's related to crime in that for the offenders have choices of what victim that they have chosen to commit crimes on. For the criminals, they also change the criminal rates since they are a high number of offenders that are vulnerable and in this way, they consider them as an easy target. The motivation to commit …show more content…
One of the main reason is the surroundings in which the replicated offense is committed. There exist some of the surroundings that favor the digital crimes. These are inclusive of additional individuals that have common goals to make attacks. This calls for more advanced technologies, for example, those that require some email confirmations before people get access to the information. Offenders have also increased as they are aware that they are less risk and chances of being prosecuted are minimal. There is also the presence of indefinite lawful authority.
From the theory, there are also some of the reasons that lead to non-digital offense. Some of these reasons that lead to non-digital crimes are that there are reduced needs for lawful evidence and thus more people are attracted to commit the crimes. The other main reason is that the non-cyber offense does not attract more attention as less wealth is lost as compared to the case cyber offense. There are also more returns that come with the non-digital offense. The tasks required may be minimal but in turn, lead to more benefits, this attracts more