Emerald Studies In Digital Crime Technology And Social Harms

Over the past two decades digital technologies have come to permeate ever more aspects of contemporary life. This trend looks set to continue and has profound implications for the social sciences particularly criminology with technology-facilitated offences now arguably constituting the most dynamic and rapidly growing area of contemporary crime. Despite this development the discipline of criminology has been slow to embrace the critical study of technology-facilitated offences and social harms with most research conducted in this area still informed by a relatively narrow range of cybersecurity and applied criminological perspectives focusing on a limited domain of `traditional´ cybercrimes such as malware hacking and online fraud.

This book series is part of a new movement within criminology and related disciplines to broaden this narrow and outdated focus and engage critically with new trends in technology-facilitated offending and victimisation. This new series does this in two key ways. Firstly by examining a wide range of technology-facilitated offences and harmful social practices ranging from digital surveillance cyber-bullying and image-based sexual abuse through to global darknet drug trading; and secondly by examining these technology-facilitated offences and harmful social practices from a broad range of critical criminological socio-legal and sociological perspectives. The series includes contemporary feminist and gendered approaches; the role and impact upon victims and perpetrators with a particular emphasis on intersectionality and vulnerable populations such as children and young people members of the LGBTIQ community women indigenous peoples culturally and linguistically diverse communities and the elderly; new methodological innovations particularly qualitative and digital ethnographic approaches; as well as cultural criminological and socio-legal perspectives.

We welcome proposals on topics that have historically been overlooked by criminological and cyber-security studies as well as texts that examine methodological approaches and innovations. We also welcome proposals from early career researchers.The series publishes standard-length monographs and edited collections as well as short-form books of between 20-50 000 words.