The Palgrave Handbook of International Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance

This Major Reference Work synthesizes the global knowledge on cybercrime from the leading international criminologists and scholars across the social sciences. The constant evolution of technology and our relationship to devices and their misuse creates a complex challenge requiring interdisciplinary knowledge and exploration. This work addresses this need by bringing disparate areas of social science research on cybercrime together. It covers the foundations, history and theoretical aspects of cybercrime, followed by four key sections on the main types of cybercrime: cyber-tresspass, cyber-deception/theft, cyber-porn and obscenity, and cyber-violence, including policy responses to cybercrime. This work will not only demonstrate the current knowledge of cybercrime but also its limitations and directions for future study. 

• deviant behavior
• cybersecurity
• cyberterrorism
• crime and technology
• social media and crime
• policing
• online victimisation
• computer science
• cyber-theft
• cyber-porn
• cyber-violence
• cyber-trespass
• cyber-violence
• dark web
• internet addiction
• crime and psychology
• cyber attacks
• cyberbullying
• sex trafficking
• victims

• College of Social Science, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

  Thomas J. Holt

• Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA

  Adam M. Bossler

Thomas J. Holt is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, and his research focuses on cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and police responses to these phenomena.

His work has been published in various peer reviewed journals including British Journal of Criminology, Crime and Delinquency, Deviant Behavior, and Terrorism and Political Violence. He has co-authored multiple books including Cybercrime and Digital Evidence: An Introduction, and Cybercrime in Progress: Theory and Prevention of Technology-Enabled Offenses. Dr. Holt is also a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, a founding member of the European Society of Criminology’s working group on cybercrime, and the director of the International Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Cybercrime, a global association of scholars in the social and technical sciences whose research considers cybercrime and cybersecurity.Prof. Adam M. Bossler Dr. Adam M. Bossler is Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern University. He earned his doctorate in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Dr. Bossler is an active member of the International Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Cybercrime (IIRCC) as well as the European Society of Criminology’s Working Group on Cybercrime.

Adam M. Bossler is Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern University. He earned his doctorate in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Dr. Bossler is an active member of the International Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Cybercrime (IIRCC) as well as the European Society of Criminology’s Working Group on Cybercrime.

Bossler teaches courses in policing, cybercrime, and criminal behavior. His research primarily focuses on examining the application of traditional criminological theories to various forms of cybercrime offending and victimization and the law enforcement response to cybercrime. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the United Kingdom Home Office. He is a co-author of three books: Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: An Introduction, 2nd edition (Routledge); Cybercrime in Progress: Theory and Prevention of Technology-Enabled Offenses (Routledge) (winner of the 2017 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ International Section Outstanding Book Award); and Policing Cybercrime and Cyberterror (Carolina Academic Press). Some of his recent peer-reviewed work can be found in Criminology and Public Policy, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, and Deviant Behavior.

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