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LOW SELF‐CONTROL, ROUTINE ACTIVITIES, AND FRAUD VICTIMIZATION*
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Recent research has used both routine activity/lifestyle frameworks and self‐control theory to explain victimization. Thus far, combined tests of these theories have focused on offending populations and street crime victimization. Whether these frameworks also explain exposure to and likelihood of nonviolent victimization (e.g., fraud) in general‐population samples remains an open empirical question. Building on prior work, we assess the independent effects of routine consumer activities (i.e., remote purchasing) and low self‐control on the likelihood of fraud targeting and victimization. Using a representative sample of 922 adults from a statewide survey in Florida, the results confirm our expectation that remote‐purchasing activities increase consumers' risk of being targeted for fraud. Low self‐control has no effect on whether consumers are targeted, but it does significantly increase the likelihood of fraud victimization.
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“Having low self-control also increased the risk of fraud victimization once targets were solicited in remote purchasing environments (Holtfreter et al., 2008; Reisig & Holtfreter, 2013).”
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“This response rate is not ideal, but it is fairly typical of the current response rates researchers are achieving in mail and telephone surveys (Curtin et al., 2005; Gau and Pratt, 2008; Holtfreter et al., 2008; McCarty et al., 2006).”
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“In a similar study, Holtfreter et al. (2008) reported a marginally significant relationship between online purchasing behaviors and fraud victimization among a sample of Florida residents.”
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“Contrary to traditional empirical approaches that pit ‘‘motivation’’ and ‘‘opportunity’’ theories against one another, the marriage of lifestyle and self-control theories allows for a more comprehensive study of victimization (Holtfreter et al. 2008; Schreck et al. 2006; Stewart et al. 2004).”
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“Previous studies have used various ways to measure low self-control, for instance by focusing on impulsivity, antisocial propensity or present orientation (e.g. Holtfreter et al., 2008; Ousey and Wilcox, 2007; Pratt and Cullen, 2000).”
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School Bullying, Low Self-Control, and Opportunity
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Targets of Online Hate: Examining Determinants of Victimization Among Young Finnish Facebook Users
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“…property victimization but not including rape and sexual assault (Schreck, 1999; Schreck et al., 2006), homicide victimization (Piquero et al., 2005), solely a measure of property victimization (Kerley et al., 2009), or fraud or Internet victimization (Holtfreter et al., 2008; Reisig et al., 2009).”
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Schoepfer, A., & Piquero, N. L. (2009) · Journal of Criminal Justice · doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2009.02.003 · Cited by 94
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Self-citationBig Five Personality Traits of Cybercrime Victims
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BackgroundExamining Risks and Protective Factors of On-Line Identity Theft
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“A lack of self-control has been linked to online victimization (e.g., Holtfreter, Reisig, and Pratt 2008; van Wilsem 2013).”
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“target hardening within business) and from routine activity theory (Cohen and Felson, 1979; Holtfreter et al., 2008), where efforts to reduce fraud offending would be based on making completing a fraudulent act more difficult or inconvenient for offenders (Clarke, 1997, 1999).”
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Lowry, P. B., Zhang, J., Moody, G. D., Chatterjee, S., Wang, C., & Wu, T. (2019) · Journal of Management Information Systems · doi:10.1080/07421222.2019.1661090 · Cited by 68
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“In line with Holtfreter et al. (2008), in distinguishing between the ten largest dual trajectory groups (having more than 20 persons), all of the variables that were expected theoretically to have a relationship to the victim-offender overlap did (Table 3).”
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Wolfe, S. E., Marcum, C. D., Higgins, G. E., & Ricketts, M. L. (2014) · Crime & Delinquency · doi:10.1177/0011128714541192 · Cited by 61
“…are those with lower levels of self-control (Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990) because they place themselves in situations where sexting is more likely and ignore the potential consequences of such behavior (see, for example, Holtfreter et al., 2008; Reisig, Pratt, & Holtfreter, 2009; Schreck, 1999).”
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Kennedy, J. P., Rorie, M., & Benson, M. L. (2021) · Criminology & Public Policy · doi:10.1111/1745-9133.12554 · Cited by 59
“…research onwhite-collar crime victimization has demonstrated the importance of opportunity – certain habits are more likely to bring victims into contact with offenders or may serve to protect against victimization (Benson et al., 2009; Holtfreter et al., 2008; Pratt et al., 2010).”
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Mesch, G. S., & Dodel, M. (2018) · American Behavioral Scientist · doi:10.1177/0002764218787854 · Cited by 57
“The scant research regarding online fraud victimization suggests that there are several consistent demographic indicators associated with these victims (Holtfreter et al., 2008; Pratt et al., 2010).”
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Holtfreter, K., Reisig, M. D., Pratt, T. C., & Holtfreter, R. E. (2015) · Psychology Crime and Law · doi:10.1080/1068316x.2015.1028545 · Cited by 55
“The use of parsimonious low self-control measures (e.g., 1-, 2-, and 3-item scales) is common in victimization research (see, e.g., Chang, Chen, & Brownson, 2003; Holtfreter et al., 2008; Van Wyk & Benson, 1997; Vaszonyi et al., 2012).”
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“…and Lersch 2005; Copes and Vieraitis 2009), victims (e.g., Anderson 2006; Heith. et al. 2010; Reyns and Henson 2016), and possible causes (e.g., Holtfreter, Reisig, and Pratt 2008; Reyns 2013, 2015; Williams 2015), with few studies considering the aftermath of the crime (Golladay and…”
BackgroundSchwartz, J. A., Connolly, E. J., & Valgardson, B. A. (2017) · Journal of Criminal Justice · doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.08.004 · Cited by 52
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Holt, T. J., Bossler, A. M., Malinski, R., & May, D. C. (2015) · Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice · doi:10.1177/1043986215621376 · Cited by 51
“…theory to cybercrime victimization has been largely mixed, with partial support for economically motivated cybercrimes, including hacking (Leukfeldt, 2014), malware (Holt & Bossler, 2013; Ngo & Paternoster, 2011), and fraud victimization (Holtfreter et al., 2008; Reyns, 2013; van Wilsem, 2013).”
BackgroundInfluentialPersonality, emotion and individual differences in response to online fraud
Norris, G., & Brookes, A. (2021) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.109847 · Cited by 50
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“…this framework to account for cybercrime victimization (Bossler & Holt, 2010; Chen, Beaudoin, & Hong, 2017; Holt, Bossler, Malinski, & May, 2016; Holtfreter et al., 2008; Louderback & Antonaccio, 2017; Mesch & Dodel, 2018; Ngo & Paternoster, 2011; Reyns, Burek, Henson, & Fisher, 2013; Reyns,…”
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Modic, D., Anderson, R., & Palomäki, J. (2018) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194119 · Cited by 54
General theory, gender-specific theory, and white-collar crime
Holtfreter, K. (2015) · Journal of Financial Crime · doi:10.1108/jfc-12-2014-0062 · Cited by 50
Self-citationRisk factors for advance fee fraud victimisation
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“Previous studies also found that the behavior of consumers (Holtfreter et al., 2008) and their cognitive judgments (Office of Fair Trading, 2006) are determining factors of fraud victimization.”
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Whitty, M. T. (2015) · IEEE Security & Privacy · doi:10.1109/msp.2015.85 · Cited by 43
“Kristy Holtfreter and her colleagues looked broadly at consumer fraud victimization and 14 are considered sensation seekers aren’t more likely to be scammed by the online dating romance scam; rather, for those who score high on the Romantic Belief Scale, ideal-ization is more associated with the…”
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You’ve got mail! Explaining individual differences in becoming a phishing target
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Understanding Gang Membership and Crime Victimization Among Jail Inmates
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“, 2005), fraud victimization (Holtfreter et al., 2008), and perceived risk of Internet theft (Reisig et al.”
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“…range of victimization, such as burglary (Coupe & Blake, 2006), larceny (Mustaine & Tewksbury, 1998), vandal-ism (Tewksbury & Mustaine, 2000), physical assault (Mustaine & Tewksbury, 2002; Stewart, Elifson, & Sterk, 2004), robbery (Spano & Nagy, 2005), and fraud (Holtfreter, Reisig, & Pratt, 2008).”
The Outsider’s Advantage: Distrust as a Deterrent to Exploitation
Yenkey, C. B. (2018) · American Journal of Sociology · doi:10.1086/700694 · Cited by 40
“…1977) predicates much of the criminological research on 623 American Journal of Sociology victimization that focuses on how individual and lifestyle attributes put potential victims into settings where crime victimization is more likely (Stafford and Galle 1984; Holtfreter, Reisig, and Pratt 2008).”
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Low Self-Control as a Source of Crime: A Meta-StudyPreprint
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“Studies have confirmed that this is true for consumer fraud victimization (Holtfreter et al., 2008; Van Wilsem, 2013) and forms of cybercrime that involve individual choice (Bossler and Holt, 2010; Louderback and Antonaccio, 2021), which includes forms of fraud.”
InfluentialThe role of social-psychological factors of victimity on victimization of online fraud in China
Zhang, Z., & Ye, Z. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1030670 · Cited by 40
“On the other hand, online consumption behavior increases the risk of being targeted for fraud (Holtfreter et al., 2008).”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- HOLTFRETER, K., REISIG, M. D., & PRATT, T. C.
- Affiliations
- Florida State University (US)
- Washington State University (US)
- Venue
- Criminology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-02
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 189-220
- ISSN
- 0011-1384 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-9125
- OpenAlex
- W2050792701
- Cited by
- 375
- References
- 108
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 48.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Criminology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Law › Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
- Keywords
- self-control theory, routine activity theory, fraud victimization, consumer fraud
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