De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2025), ix, 524 pp.
Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Handbooks, 6
ISBN 978-3-11-106193-1; 978-3-11-106203-7; 978-3-11-106264-8
"The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology examines how digital devices spread and cut across all fields of crime and control. Providing a glossary of key theoretical, methodological and criminological concepts, the book defines and further establishes a vibrant, rapidly developing field. Focusing on central criminological phenomena, it provides a framework that will enable readers to bring their own research themes into digital environments." (Publisher description)
"This book pays attention to the ways in which electronic digital devices, online and offline, spread and cut across all fields of criminology. Criminologists need to be able to identify, make visible and analyze the technologies, practices, and social dynamics that emerge from their growing relevance. Digitalization changes interaction and information flow, speed and spatiality, experiences and practices of crime and crime control. It influences every aspect of criminology, such as victimization and violence, corporate and organized crime, fraud, drug markets and consumption, radicalization and terrorism, policing and forensics, sentencing and punishment. Digitalization bears new modi operandi, cultures of surveillance and social control, and new types of offenses, which this book documents and problematizes. Hence, this is a handbook about the digitalization of criminological arenas rather than criminology in the ‘digital era.’ Criminology has not entered the ‘digital age,’ an epoch in which the digital—singular—is an entirely new and all-encompassing phenomenon. Rather, its theory, method, and subjects are part of a process of digitalization that is rooted in the discipline’s original matters and spreads in manifold ways. In what follows we will first go back to the origins of the word digital and show how it has shaped criminological work from its very beginning. We will then move on to describe the ways in which ‘the digital’ and its technologies have changed. Criminologists have to take account of these changes when they study specific phenomena, especially because the logics of digitalization tend to tie in with politics and power. Studying digitalization across different criminological fields also warrants a re-thinking of the tools we use for knowledge-making, which we will discuss before we let readers off to browse, delve into specific topics and plan research projects." (Page 1)
An introduction to digital criminology / Mareile Kaufmann and Heidi Mork Lomell, 1
1 Abuse / Anne-Marie McAlinden, 21
2 Accessing online communities / Mareile Kaufmann, 29
3 Affordances / Mark A. Wood and Will Arpke-Wales, 37
4 Agency / Susanne Krasmann, 45
5 Algorithm / Matthias Leese, 53
6 App-based textual interviews / Silje Bakken, 61
7 Archives / Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Kristin Veel, 69
8 Art as method / Heather Dewey-Hagborg, 79
9 Artificial intelligence / Rosamunde Van Brakel, 83
10 Automation / Monique Mann, 91
11 Bias / Marion Oswald and Angela Paul, 99
12 Big data / Aleš Završnik, 107
13 Biometric failure / Ravida Din and Shoshana Magnet, 115
14 Borders and border control / Julien Jeandesboz, 123
15 Categorization and sorting / Katja Franko, 133
16 Computation / Stefano Mazzilli Daechsel, 141
17 Cybercrime / Thomas J. Holt and Karen M. Holt, 149
18 Darknet / Meropi Tzanetakis, 157
19 Data justice / Joanna Redden, 165
20 Databases / Rocco Bellanova, 173
21 Datafication / Janet Chan, 181
22 Digilantism / Daniel Trottier, 189
23 Digital / Jacqueline D. Wernimont, 197
24 DNA / big genome data / Mareile Kaufmann, 205
25 Error / Claudia Aradau, 215
26 Ethics / Annette Markham, 223
27 Facial recognition / Pete Fussey, 233
28 Financial crime and surveillance / Anthony Amicelle, 243
29 Hacking / David S. Wall, 251
30 Hate crime and networked hate / Robin Cameron, Gregory Stratton, and Anastasia Powell, 261
31 Identify theft / Malcolm Langford, Amelia Svensson, and Tone Wærstad, 269
32 Infrastructures / Miria Grisot and Elena Parmiggiani, 279
33 Intelligence / Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus and Jenny Maria Lundgaard, 287
34 Internet of things / Sanja Milivojevic, 297
35 Interviews with digital objects / Catherine Adams and Terrie Lynn Thompson, 305
36 Labs / Stefano Mazzilli Daechsel, 315
37 Low-tech / Maja Vestad, 323
38 Online courts / Avital Mentovich and Orna Rabinovich Einy, 333
39 Online ethnography / Nicholas Gibbs and Alexandra Hall, 343
40 Platforms / Simon Egbert, 353
41 Policing / Dean Wilson, 363
42 Prediction / Emils Kilis, Helene O. I. Gundhus, and Vasilis Galis, 371
43 Privacy and data protection / Lee A. Bygrave, 381
44 Privatization / Heidi Mork Lomell, 389
45 Punishment / Rose Lunde and Peter Scharff Smith, 399
46 Recruitment via social media / Jan Christoffer Andersen, 409
47 Researching online forums / Maryia Šupa, 419
48 Robots / Naomi Lintvedt and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, 427
49 Sentencing and risk assessment algorithms / Pamela Ugwudike, 435
50 Sex work / Helen M. Rand, 445
51 Smart city / Keith Hayward, 453
52 Social media / Mirjam Abigail Twigt, 461
53 Surveillance / David Lyon, 469
54 Synthetic data and generative machine learning / Katja de Vries, 483
55 Translation / Dana Wilson-Kovacs, 493
56 Victimization / Sandra Walklate, 501
57 Vulnerability / Sofia Ranchordas and Malou, 509
1 Abuse / Anne-Marie McAlinden, 21
2 Accessing online communities / Mareile Kaufmann, 29
3 Affordances / Mark A. Wood and Will Arpke-Wales, 37
4 Agency / Susanne Krasmann, 45
5 Algorithm / Matthias Leese, 53
6 App-based textual interviews / Silje Bakken, 61
7 Archives / Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Kristin Veel, 69
8 Art as method / Heather Dewey-Hagborg, 79
9 Artificial intelligence / Rosamunde Van Brakel, 83
10 Automation / Monique Mann, 91
11 Bias / Marion Oswald and Angela Paul, 99
12 Big data / Aleš Završnik, 107
13 Biometric failure / Ravida Din and Shoshana Magnet, 115
14 Borders and border control / Julien Jeandesboz, 123
15 Categorization and sorting / Katja Franko, 133
16 Computation / Stefano Mazzilli Daechsel, 141
17 Cybercrime / Thomas J. Holt and Karen M. Holt, 149
18 Darknet / Meropi Tzanetakis, 157
19 Data justice / Joanna Redden, 165
20 Databases / Rocco Bellanova, 173
21 Datafication / Janet Chan, 181
22 Digilantism / Daniel Trottier, 189
23 Digital / Jacqueline D. Wernimont, 197
24 DNA / big genome data / Mareile Kaufmann, 205
25 Error / Claudia Aradau, 215
26 Ethics / Annette Markham, 223
27 Facial recognition / Pete Fussey, 233
28 Financial crime and surveillance / Anthony Amicelle, 243
29 Hacking / David S. Wall, 251
30 Hate crime and networked hate / Robin Cameron, Gregory Stratton, and Anastasia Powell, 261
31 Identify theft / Malcolm Langford, Amelia Svensson, and Tone Wærstad, 269
32 Infrastructures / Miria Grisot and Elena Parmiggiani, 279
33 Intelligence / Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus and Jenny Maria Lundgaard, 287
34 Internet of things / Sanja Milivojevic, 297
35 Interviews with digital objects / Catherine Adams and Terrie Lynn Thompson, 305
36 Labs / Stefano Mazzilli Daechsel, 315
37 Low-tech / Maja Vestad, 323
38 Online courts / Avital Mentovich and Orna Rabinovich Einy, 333
39 Online ethnography / Nicholas Gibbs and Alexandra Hall, 343
40 Platforms / Simon Egbert, 353
41 Policing / Dean Wilson, 363
42 Prediction / Emils Kilis, Helene O. I. Gundhus, and Vasilis Galis, 371
43 Privacy and data protection / Lee A. Bygrave, 381
44 Privatization / Heidi Mork Lomell, 389
45 Punishment / Rose Lunde and Peter Scharff Smith, 399
46 Recruitment via social media / Jan Christoffer Andersen, 409
47 Researching online forums / Maryia Šupa, 419
48 Robots / Naomi Lintvedt and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, 427
49 Sentencing and risk assessment algorithms / Pamela Ugwudike, 435
50 Sex work / Helen M. Rand, 445
51 Smart city / Keith Hayward, 453
52 Social media / Mirjam Abigail Twigt, 461
53 Surveillance / David Lyon, 469
54 Synthetic data and generative machine learning / Katja de Vries, 483
55 Translation / Dana Wilson-Kovacs, 493
56 Victimization / Sandra Walklate, 501
57 Vulnerability / Sofia Ranchordas and Malou, 509
