This edited book promotes and facilitates cybercrime research by providing a cutting-edge collection of perspectives on the critical usage of online data across platforms, as well as the implementation of both traditional and innovative analysis methods. The accessibility, variety and wealth of data available online presents substantial opportunities for researchers from different disciplines to study cybercrimes and, more generally, human behavior in cyberspace. The unique and dynamic characteristics of cyberspace often demand cross-disciplinary and cross-national research endeavors, but disciplinary, cultural and legal differences can hinder the ability of researchers to collaborate. This work also provides a review of the ethics associated with the use of online data sources across the globe. The authors are drawn from multiple disciplines and nations, providing unique insights into the value and challenges evident in online data use for cybercrime scholarship. It is a key text forresearchers at the upper undergraduate level and above.

“In Researching Cybercrimes: Methodologies, Ethics, and Critical Approaches Lavorgna and Holt bring together a wealth of expertise addressing the challenges and opportunities for conducting criminological research in a digital society. This collection is an invaluable resource for both early and established scholars of cybercrime, or indeed anyone seeking guidance on the techniques and ethical considerations necessary for digital research. It is an outstanding contribution to cyber and digital criminologies: synthesizing and extending understanding of a range of both familiar and innovative methods in the discipline. In doing so Researching Cybercrimes is an important - indeed an essential - sourcebook for criminologists and other social scientists addressing crime, harm and deviance in cyberspace” (Dr Anastasia Powell, Associate Professor in Criminology & Justice Studies, RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) University, Australia) 

“This timely and essential book provides much-needed methodological insights and ethical guidance to cybercrime researchers. It will enable aspiring and experienced criminologists to design responsible data collection and analysis protocols and draw inspiration from a truly interdisciplinary and international sample of best practices” (Prof Benoit Dupont is Professor of Criminology at the Université de Montréal and Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity, Canada) 

“Criminology is difficult. It involves studying behavior that many would rather go uninvestigated or even unnoticed out of fear of shame, reprisal, or apprehension. The issue is only more acute for criminologists examining cybercrimes. Well-documented are the advantages offered to criminals by computers and the internet as are the disadvantages for researchers and law enforcement. Fortunately, criminologists have made significant strides in recent decades to forge innovative solutions to problems endemic to cybercrime research. In Researching Cybercrimes, Anita Lavorgna and Thomas Holt have assembled a crack team of internationally respected cybercrime scholars to provide a robust assessment of the contemporary methodological landscape while charting directions for future cybercrime research. Its chapters cut across a variety of subjects sure to be of interest to scholar and student alike including the logic of cybercrime inquiry, innovations and challenges in data gathering and analysis, and cybercrime research ethics. All self-respecting cybercrime researchers should keep this volume within arm’s reach” (Dr Kevin F. Steinmetz is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Kansas State University, USA)

Provides a state-of-the-art collection on conducting cybercrime research Seeks to develop a common jargon, methodology and ethical standards for researching cybercrime across the globe Presents a diverse range of cybercrime research examples, from an international range of contributors Speaks to those in the social sciences, applied philosophy, computer science, legal ethics and beyond

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