A crime script analysis of transnational identity fraud: migrant offenders’ use of technology in South Korea

The study aims to better understand transnational identity fraud utilizing crime script analysis. Drawing upon the author’s ethnographic data from transnational identity fraud cases, analysis reveals how voice phishing crimes are planned and executed by Chinese criminals. The details and procedures...

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Published inCrime, law, and social change Vol. 74; no. 2; pp. 201 - 218
Main Author Lee, Claire Seungeun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Activity theory
Crime prevention
Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law
Criminology
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Ethnography
Fraud
Identity
Identity theft
Law and Criminolgy
Migrants
Migration
Offenders
Organized crime
Political Science
Routine activity theory
Social Sciences
Technology
Transnationalism
South Korea
Migration-crime nexus
Crime script analysis
Technology
Transnational identity fraud
Voice phishing
Transnational organized crime
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Summary:The study aims to better understand transnational identity fraud utilizing crime script analysis. Drawing upon the author’s ethnographic data from transnational identity fraud cases, analysis reveals how voice phishing crimes are planned and executed by Chinese criminals. The details and procedures of each crime are documented in a “crime script.” Using routine activity theory, as well as a migration-crime nexus, this research frames voice phishing (“vishing”) as a form of transnational identity fraud anchored at the intersection of technology and migration. Furthermore, crime script analysis offers a look into not only the processes and details of these crimes, as well as each phase of the offenders’ actions, but also provides insight into crime prevention strategies.
ISSN:0925-4994
1573-0751
DOI:10.1007/s10611-020-09885-3