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Victim Characteristics

Approved public versions are listed newest first. Drafts, unsuccessful generation attempts, and versions not yet published through this Research Insight are excluded.

Approved public versions

  1. Version 2

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first compiled version for the controlled topic 'Victim Characteristics' using the supplied reviewed evidence. It integrates multiple complaint-series, qualitative interviews, corpus analyses, and systematic reviews from the provided corpus and explicitly describes areas of agreement, disagreement, methodological limitations, and evidence gaps as reflected in those records.

    • Publications: 34 (+7)
    • Evidence statements: 138 (+29)
    • Cited sources: 34 (+7)

    Sources added: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Cyber Romance Scam Victimization Analysis using Routine Activity Theory Versus Apriori Algorithm; and 17 more.

    Sources removed: A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States; A scoping review of online romance scams: Conceptual construction and comparative analysis; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud; and 10 more.

  2. Version 1

    This is the initial version of the evidence synthesis for the topic Victim Characteristics. It catalogs overarching patterns, methodological strengths and limitations, and avenues for future research based on the provided reviewed evidence.

    • Publications: 27
    • Evidence statements: 109
    • Cited sources: 27
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