“Several scholars have highlighted that cybercrime studies have focused predominantly on North America and Europe limiting the development of cybercrime research, generalizability of findings and opportunities to elucidate the importance of spatial factors in cybercrime victimization. In this, study we use the Routine Activity Theory (RAT) to examine online-related activities that affect cybercrime victimization in the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago. First, we develop predictive models of operational risk of cybercrime victimization (unauthorized access and cyberbullying) using supervised learning methods, i.e., random forest and logistic regression, using survey data we collected on online exposure, target suitability and capable guardianship. We found that that online activities that increase target exposure and accessibility increased victimization risk while physical methods of guardianship can be weakly protective. Further, the RAT was found to be better able to explain cyberbullying than unauthorized access victimization. The observed risk factors for Trinidad and Tobago were significantly similar to the outcomes of North American and European studies.”
