D.S. Wall
Policing Identity Crimes
Wall, D.S.
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Abstract
Identity-related crimes pose a significant problem to both the UK economy and also its citizens because they cause estimated annual losses of around £1.5billion. Not only do identity crimes cause considerable public concern, but they also create challenges for policing them; not least, because policing responses, in the broader regulatory sense, are often over-reactive or take the form of dramatic Public Relations gestures rather than coherent policing policy. Yet, the realities of identity-related crimes are quite different from the ways that they are perceived and even more important is that fact that this difference presents many challenges for those whose job is to ‘police’ them. This article will look at what identity crimes are and at the very real problems they pose for policing them as non-routine policing activities. The article will, firstly, map out identity crimes and outline the behaviours that we understand as identity crimes and their core characteristics. It will then consider how the characteristics map onto traditional police practice and consider some of the ways that the challenges have been addressed.
Citation
Wall, D. (2013). Policing Identity Crimes. Policing and Society, 23(4), 437-460. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2013.780224
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Dec 1, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Apr 17, 2013 |
Journal | Policing and Society |
Print ISSN | 1043-9463 |
Electronic ISSN | 1477-2728 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 23 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 437-460 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2013.780224 |
Keywords | Identity crime, Identity theft, Identity fraud, Policing cybercrime, Policing cybercrimes, Social network crime. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1478464 |
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