ABSTRACT

The field of criminology has greatly contributed to our understanding of cybercrime offending and victimization through the application and testing of traditional criminological theories. This chapter reviews the empirical evidence linking the field’s most popular theories to a wide variety of cybercrime offending and victimization types. The field can continue to progress by improving its conceptualization of key concepts, continued modification of existing theory, and working on a general cyber integrated theory that would allow for a unified theory from which to clarify concepts, create links, fill in gaps, and extend current knowledge.