Economic geographers have traditionally been reluctant to extend their analysis to illicit and illegal markets despite their being significant in their global economic extent and displaying highly uneven geographies. By contrast, the geographies of licit, legal industries have produced multiple traditions of empirically rich, theoretically diverse accounts. Our understandings of the spatialities of illicit and illegal ‘industries’ derive from a different set of intellectual traditions for whom space is a less explicit, central concern. This paper aims to advance our understanding of the geographies of illegal economic activities by exploring the spatialities of one illegal industry, cybercrime (online for-profit fraud), through the lens of economic geography. It considers the spaces within which cybercrime is embedded, exploring it as the product of factors operating at multiple scales. It reviews cybercrime scholarship focused, variously, at the local, national and transnational scales and examines factors salient to the production of cybercrime through case studies at these scales. It examines national level drivers of cybercrime, local cybercrime agglomerations in Europe and transnational asymmetries, connections and opacities and the production of cybercrime. In each case, it reflects upon the potentials for the development of more spatially informed readings of cybercrime specifically, and illegal economic activities more generally, and considers how this might be mobilised to inform anti-cybercrime policy. The paper speaks to both theme I of this special edition ‘the interactions, the norms, the rituals, the behaviours of OCGs in physical spaces’ and theme III ‘the interactions between OCGs and institutions such as the political and economic field’.

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非法经济地理学：网络犯罪的多尺度生产

经济地理学家历来不愿意将他们的分析扩展到非法和非法市场，尽管它们在全球经济范围内占有重要地位并且表现出高度不均衡的地理分布。相比之下，合法、合法产业的地域产生了经验丰富、理论多样化的多种传统。我们对非法和非法“产业”的空间性的理解来自一组不同的知识传统，对他们来说，空间是一个不太明确的中心问题。本文旨在通过经济地理学的视角探索一个非法行业网络犯罪（在线营利性欺诈）的空间性，从而促进我们对非法经济活动地理的理解。它考虑了嵌入网络犯罪的空间，将其作为在多个尺度上运行的因素的产物进行探索。它审查了网络犯罪学术研究，侧重于地方、国家和跨国范围，并通过这些尺度的案例研究研究了网络犯罪产生的显着因素。它研究了国家层面的网络犯罪驱动因素、欧洲地方网络犯罪的聚集以及跨国不对称、联系和不透明以及网络犯罪的产生。在每一种情况下，它都反映了发展更广泛地了解网络犯罪和更普遍的非法经济活动的潜力，并考虑如何将其动员起来为反网络犯罪政策提供信息。这篇论文谈到了这个特别版的两个主题“互动、规范、仪式、