International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue V, May 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Challenges of Cyber Policing in Response of Cybercrime to Reduce Victimization

 Abu Taher Muhammad Abdullah¹, Israt Jahan^2
1MA Criminology, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK,
²MA Digital Media, School of Computing and Digital Media, London Metropolitan University, UK

Abstract: This research investigated cyber policing challenges to reduce victimization in response to cybercrime with a systematic literature review method. Thematic analysis technique adopted to synthesize 111 articles of Scopus and ASSIA databases to find the theme ‘challenges of cyber policing’. While ‘Big Data’ is an important hurdle to cybercrime investigation for police and othe law enforcement organizations, as cyber criminals use images and social media texts in cyber offences. Then, recording of traditional crime fails to identify the digital fraud, commercial victimization, and gang culture which is huge challenge of effective cyber policing. Besides, transnational jurisdiction, ‘Advaced Persistent Threats (APT), Brexit, interdisciplinary barriers, command responsibility, electronic evidence and lack of equipments and devices were identified as challenges of policing in cyberspace. However, future responsive policies to cybercrime recognized as proactive approach to identify this crime, gain digital specialism, national crime database, ‘Swiss Model’, and vigilatntes. Hence, this study is not beyond limitation of empirical observations, which will be the future initiative in the field.

Keywords: Cybercrime, policing, challenges, transnational crime, victimization

I.INTRODUCTION

Advancement of technology makes people more dependent on Internet which is a breeding ground of malicious activities like cybercrime. The invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 has expedited digital communication and interaction among the world population (Hunton, 2011). This phenomenon of the Internet across the globe is directly impacting upon and even underpinning many fundamental aspects of modern society and critical national infrastructures. Cybercrime is a pressing issue for national and international police organizations to respond to cybercrime, ‘including the complex dynamics of cybercrime networks’ (Harkin et al, 2018). In fact, cyber policing envisages huge challenges to reduce victimization.