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Cybercrime and Digital Criminology

Description

The Cybercrime and Digital Criminology ANZSOC thematic group brings together an
interdisciplinary cast of scholars from across Australia and New Zealand seeking to better
understand the role and impact of digital technologies on offending, victimisation and justice. Group member share interests across a broad range of areas, including, but not limited to:

  • Understanding the extent and nature and extent of cybercrime and technology-facilitated criminality in its many forms;
  • Explaining the individual, social and structural factors associated with cyber-offending and developmental trajectories;
  • Examining the nature, context and drivers of cyber-victimisation and injustice;
  • Developing and evaluating crime prevention strategies and interventions in digital environments;
  • Identifying effective means of policing and regulating cyber-offending;
  • Examination of justice movements and the impacts of digital advocacy.

Aims and Objectives

  • Provide a forum that will serve as a meeting place for like-minded students, early, mid-career and senior researchers to share their research and ideas, seek guidance and mentorship, as well as foster new interdisciplinary collaborations leveraging mixed-method approaches.
  • Build links between researchers and practitioners to inform evidence-based policy and advocacy.
  • Organise ANZSOC conference panels and other events throughout the year that align with the sub-themes associated with the thematic group.
  • Coordinate activities with similarly established divisions and groups within the American Society of Criminology (Division of Cybercrime), the European Society of Criminology (Working Group on Cybercrime), and the International Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Cybercrime.

Convenor

Dr Cassandra Cross, Queensland University of Technology

Membership List:

Last updated January 2025

  • Adam Alliss, Public Sector Commission, Western Australia
  • Kristen Anderson, Griffith University
  • Chelsea Baker, Mullins Lawyers
  • Samuel Bennett, Flinders University
  • Ausma Bernot, Griffith University
  • Daniel Bestamann, Department of Justice, WA
  • Mehbeez Binte Matiur, Macquarie University
  • Kevin Blane, Flinders University
  • John Bolimos, South Australia Police
  • Emma Brew-Bevan, Flinders University
  • Shobanah Bring, University of Newcastle
  • Andi Brown, Deakin University
  • Robin Cameron, RMIT University
  • Jared Dmello, University of Adelaide
  • Justin Ellis, University of Newcastle
  • Moses Faleolo, University of Victoria Wellington
  • Stefanie Flowers, Director of Public Prosecutions
  • Michelle Geiszler, University of the Sunshine Coast
  • Alison Husain, Griffith University
  • Kai Lin, University of Technology Sydney
  • Rita Lok, University of Queensland
  • Carolyn McKay, The University of Sydney
  • Michael McLerie, McLerie and Associates
  • Benjamin Martyn, QLD Police Sevice
  • Maegan Miccelli, Australian National University
  • Anton Moiseienko, Australian National University
  • Trent Morrison-Francis, Griffith University
  • Hannah Murphy
  • Patricia O’Hagan, Independent Consultant
  • Anastasia Powell, RMIT University
  • Jacques Radivojevic, Murdoch University
  • Jagrut Raval
  • Dimitri Razos, The University of Melbourne
  • Tabeth Senior, NSW Department of Communities and Justice
  • Helen Simpson, University of Wollongong
  • Russell Smith, Flinders University
  • Kiara Troop, Deakin University
  • Azrini Wahidin, University of Sydney
  • Neil Williamson, NSW Police
  • Michael Wilson, Murdoch University
  • Jessica Woolley, Deakin University

We, the members of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC), acknowledge the traditional custodians of Australia and the sovereignty of the Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand.

ANZSOC would like to acknowledge the ongoing Traditional Custodians of the lands for which our constituents conduct their teaching, learning, and research. We would like to acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and the lands, now called Australia, continue to belong to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the Traditional custodians of the lands. ANZSOC would like to pay respects to the Elders who have passed on the legacy of knowledge and culture to the future generations and acknowledge that the future generations hold the hope, the stories and the continued knowledge for current and emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. May this knowledge through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing guide you with wisdom and courage.

ANZSOC also recognises iwi Māori and their unceded right to tino rangatiratanga (sovereignty) and their expression of mana motuhaka (self-determination). We acknowledge mātauranga Māori (Māori ways of being and knowing) informs both traditional and contemporary knowledge production and its ability to enhance our collective futures.

The Association acknowledges the consequences and harms that continue to be inflicted by the criminal justice systems of Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand on Indigenous peoples in the region and seeks through its activities to address these harms and to work to prevent them from continuing in the future.

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  • Dr Matthew Morgan, ANZSOC Secretary
  • Thomas More Law School, ACU
    Level 1, Building 203
    1100 Nudgee Road, Banyo, QLD, 4014
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