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This chapter draws together the key empirical strands that have emerged throughout the preceding chapters and explicates the practical dimensions of this work. It acknowledges first that there has been very little research evaluating the effects of crime prevention initiatives on cybercrime. It then outlines ways in which this gap can be addressed in the future, and some of the issues that both researchers and practitioners will need to be aware of when it comes to implementing and evaluating cybercrime interventions. This chapter concludes by offering a number of recommendations for practitioners and researchers seeking to evaluate cybercrime interventions in the future.
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We acknowledge that elsewhere, less methodologically robust studies have also examined the merits of other SCP approaches within cybercrime contexts, including the use of firewalls and passwords , vulnerability patching , police crackdowns, intrusion detection and prevention systems , honeypots , audit trails , website takedowns , fraud detection systems , and spam filtering (see further Chapter 2).
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Brewer, R., de Vel-Palumbo, M., Hutchings, A., Holt, T., Goldsmith, A., Maimon, D. (2019). Designing and Evaluating Crime Prevention Solutions for the Digital Age. In: Cybercrime Prevention. Crime Prevention and Security Management. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31069-1_9
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