Purpose

As a well-known social institution, crime prevention has traditionally been in the purview of public authorities. However, the ceaseless increase in the use of online resources and governments’ responsibilisation approach to cybercrime prevention has created an ecosystem, which necessitates the empowerment of individuals. By introducing the concept of internal spheres of protection, the purpose of this paper is to show how traditionally public responsibilities require increased facilitation by individuals to adequately safeguard what they value.

Design/methodology/approach

This is a brief conceptual paper, which recasts the individual’s role in cybercrime prevention through a critique of the routine activity theory (Cohen and Felson, 1979) and explains how responsibilisation (Garland, 1996) has created an unavoidable need to provide individuals with the knowledge and tools required to avoid online victimisation.

Findings

In the context of cybercrime, criminological theories that are limited in considering the individual both as the target of crime and the person likeliest to prevent it are quickly becoming outdated. Public authorities either cannot intervene or are moving away from intervening on citizens’ behalf to effectively stymie the pressure from cybercriminals. Thus, there is a need of an approach that starts with individuals and their value-based motivations.

Originality/value

The concept of internal spheres of protection is a novel way of looking at cybercrime prevention. The internal spheres are based on individuals’ values, and the value of security in particular, and take cyber-knowledge as a point of departure towards safeguarding such values, i.e. through risk-decreasing actions and the use of relevant tools.

中文翻译：

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个人在网络犯罪预防中的作用：内部保护范围和我们保护它们的能力

目的

作为一个著名的社会机构，预防犯罪传统上一直属于公共当局的职权范围。然而，在线资源使用的不断增加和政府对网络犯罪预防的责任化方法创造了一个生态系统，这需要赋予个人权力。通过引入内部保护范围的概念，本文的目的是展示传统的公共责任如何要求个人增加便利，以充分保护他们的价值。

设计/方法/方法

这是一篇简短的概念性论文，通过对常规活动理论（Cohen 和 Felson，1979 年）的批判，重新塑造了个人在网络犯罪预防中的作用，并解释了责任化（Garland，1996 年）如何创造了向个人提供知识的不可避免的需求以及避免在线受害所需的工具。

发现

在网络犯罪的背景下，在将个人视为犯罪目标和最有可能阻止犯罪的人方面受到限制的犯罪学理论很快就会过时。公共当局要么无法干预，要么不再代表公民进行干预，以有效遏制来自网络犯罪分子的压力。因此，需要一种从个人及其基于价值的动机开始的方法。

原创性/价值

内部保护范围的概念是看待网络犯罪预防的一种新颖方式。内部领域基于个人价值，尤其是安全价值，并将网络知识作为保护这些价值的出发点，即通过降低风险的行动和使用相关工具。