European Journal of Policing Studies – Jaargang 3/1 (2015) (ISSN 2034-760x)

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Contents:

Introduction
A. Verhage, L. Bisschop, W. Hardyns

Articles

‘Moral’ versus ‘Risk-based’ Policing of Cybercrime.
Insights from Police Response to Internet Fraud in Saudi Arabia’s
Capital City, Riyadh
A.F. Algarni (1)

Abstract
This paper contributes to current debates on the policing of Internet fraud by introducing the
Saudi Arabian experience. Drawing on field research in the capital city, Riyadh, it explores how this
new aspect of policing activity fits in with not only the existing organisational practices, but also
the occupational and individual concerns of frontline officers. Moreover, the article considers the
implications of the Saudi culture, social norms, and values for police responses to Internet fraud.
It is argued that the policing of Internet fraud in Saudi Arabia, and the extent to which it fits with
contemporary debates on risk-based policing of cybercrime, can only be understood by examining
how new policing modes and cultural traditions merge and integrate to shape police response to
this novel criminal phenomenon.

Keywords: fraud, internet, cybercrime, policing, risk, morality

(1) Assistant Professor of Criminology at King Fahad Security College’s Centre for
Studies and Research.

Policing Online Child
Sexual Abuse. The British Experience
E. Martelozzo (1)

Abstract
Incidents of child sexual abuse (CSA) are frequently documented and have recently attracted intense
police, public scrutiny and efforts of social control across the Western world. This paper aims to
explore the very concerning issue of online CSA and the way in which the police is responding to
this growing problem. It will present some of the challenges the police in the United Kingdom
face daily in dealing with the threats to children’s online safety. It argues that although proactive
undercover policing has helped police forces to unmask sex offenders who predate innocent
victims online, the advancement of technology is making the work of police officers more and more
challenging. The findings presented have been collected over the last decade (2003-2013) during
two exploratory, grounded theory studies, which involved the interviews with 21 police officers
and forensic examiners and the observation and analysis of three police operations at the London
Metropolitan Police Paedophile Unit in London.

Keywords: online child sexual abuse, online safety, technology, undercover policing, police challenges

(1) Criminologist at Middlesex University in London.

The Italian Police Forces into
Neoliberal Frame. An Example of Perpetual Coexistence
of Democratic and Authoritarian
Practices and of Anamorphosis of
Democratic Rules of Law
S. Palidda (1)

Abstract
This text proposes a description and analysis of the Italian police forces. The approach adopted
specifically regards their social and political construction and therefore their practices within the
political organization of society. In order to better analyse the social construction of the Italian
police case, I propose regarding the police as one of the several social institutions involved in the
continuous experimentation to find a political organization of society. Research into the Italian
police forces has been, and is still, very rare. In this paper I refer to research that I have carried out
on the Italian police forces since 1990, and also to other documents and knowledge gathered in
judicial inquiries and from reliable special reports.

Keywords: Italian police forces, anamorphosis of the rules of law, tolerated and intolerable illegalities,
discretion of police forces, ignored insecurities

(1) Professor a