Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice: Neutralization Techniques in Interviews with Police and Online Romance Fraud Offenders
Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice: Neutralization Techniques in Interviews with Police and Online Romance Fraud Offenders
Suleman Lazarus Mariata Hughes Mark Button Kaina Habila Garba a University of Surrey, Guildford, UKb London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UKc University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africad University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UKe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abuja, NigeriaSuleman Lazarus holds a PhD in Cybercrime and Criminology from the University of Portsmouth, UK. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journal Digital Threats: Research and Practice. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Research Fellow at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Dr Lazarus developed the Tripartite Cybercrime Framework (TCF), which categorizes cybercrimes into socioeconomic, psychosocial, and geopolitical motivational groups. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Telematics and Informatics, Criminal Justice Studies, Life Writing, and Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. Dr Lazarus’s research focuses on the intersection of cybercriminals and society.Mariata Hughes obtained her MSc in Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK, and she is currently completing her doctoral studies at the same university. Her research interests include online romance scams, law enforcement perspectives, and cybercrime in Ghana.Mark Button is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime at the University of Portsmouth. He has written extensively on counter-fraud, cyber-fraud, and private policing issues, publishing many articles and chapters and completing 10 books. He has researched extensively for various organizations, including the Home Office, National Fraud Authority, EPSRC, Sentencing Council, Midlands Fraud Forum, Crowe Clark Whitehill, and the United Nations.Kaina Habila Garba is a chief superintendent and investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigeria. He has extensive experience investigating cyber-enabled crimes and money laundering. He obtained an M.Sc. in Economic Crime and International Criminal Justice from the University of Portsmouth, UK, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). His research interests include cryptocurrency scams, romance scams, and cybercrime in Nigeria. His scholarly works have been published in journals such as Current Issues in Criminal Justice.