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DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE ECONOMICS OF CRIME
Author(s) -
Cameron Samuel
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0270.00366
Subject(s) - deterrence (psychology) , punishment (psychology) , enforcement , economic crime , economics , deterrence theory , cybercrime , public economics , law and economics , criminology , business , political science , law , sociology , computer science , the internet , psychology , social psychology , world wide web
Digital crime is an area where the application of the economics of crime is complex. In a nutshell, the essential economic problem of digi‐crime is the impact of technological progress making transactions costs of enforcement potentially too high, partly because of the low costs of copyright infringement due to technological advance, for there to be substantial amounts of deterrence from punishment.