Dating hot spot to fraud hot spot: Targeting the social characteristics of romance fraud victims in England and Wales

IF 3.5 1区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Criminology & Public Policy Pub Date : 2023-05-26 DOI:10.1111/1745-9133.12629

Richard Sinclair, Matthew Bland, Bradley Savage

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Abstract

Research Summary

We found that romance fraud was rising year-on-year across every region in England and Wales, increasing 55% during the 3 years between October 2018 and October 2021. Fifty percent of all the romance fraud victims in the period resided in 17% of the places where romance fraud had occurred. A total of 439 locations (outward postcode areas) were identified as the “power few” in the first year of the data set. Of these 439 locations, 162 of them recurred in both of the following years, becoming chronic “hot spot” locations containing more than one in six of all reported romance fraud victims. The demography of victims in repeat locations differed considerably, but hot spots were more frequently predominantly populated by less affluent populations.

Policy Implications

We conclude that the current national one-size-fits-all fraud prevention approach may not be the most efficient or effective way to reach those victims who most require crime prevention advice. The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, based in the City of London Police, could adopt a tailored approach to providing preventative information to local police forces based on the year-to-year patterns in crime and the associated intelligence provided by sociodemographic data sources such as Acorn.

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从约会热点到诈骗热点:针对英格兰和威尔士地区恋爱诈骗受害者的社会特征

我们发现，在英格兰和威尔士的每个地区，爱情欺诈都在逐年上升，在2018年10月至2021年10月的三年间增长了55%。在此期间，50%的爱情欺诈受害者居住在17%的发生过爱情欺诈的地方。在数据集的第一年，共有439个地点(向外邮政编码地区)被确定为“权力少数”。在这439个地点中，162个在接下来的两年中反复出现，成为长期的“热点”地点，占所有报告的爱情欺诈受害者的六分之一以上。重复地点受害者的人口统计差异很大，但热点地区的主要人口往往是较不富裕的人口。我们的结论是，目前国家一刀切的预防欺诈方法可能不是最有效或最有效的方式来接触那些最需要预防犯罪建议的受害者。总部设在伦敦警察局的国家欺诈情报局(National Fraud Intelligence Bureau)可以根据每年的犯罪模式和Acorn等社会人口数据来源提供的相关情报，采取一种量身定制的方法，向当地警察部队提供预防信息。

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期刊介绍： Criminology & Public Policy is interdisciplinary in nature, devoted to policy discussions of criminology research findings. Focusing on the study of criminal justice policy and practice, the central objective of the journal is to strengthen the role of research findings in the formulation of crime and justice policy by publishing empirically based, policy focused articles.