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 Sahana Sarkar, Flinders University
Dr Tahlia Hart, Flinders University
Dr Rahul Sinha-Roy, LaTrobe University
Membership List:
Last updated March 2026
- Samia Ali, University of Auckland
- Tanya Armao, Ross Hill and Associate Solicitors
- Duane Aslett, Charles Sturt University
- Lucy Badman, Mitchelton State High School
- Sungshin (Luna) Bae, Monash
- Tayla Barber, University of Queensland
- Simone Baran, Jurisprudence
- Samuel Bennett Flinders University
- Ausma Bernot, Griffith
- Daniel Bestmann, Department of Justice (WA)
- Sally Bishop, University of the Sunshine Coast
- Kevin Blane, Flinders University
- John Bolimos, SA Police
- Shobanah Brind, University of Newcastle
- Andi Brown, Deakin
- Emma Bunn, University of Newcastle
- Hsueh-Hung (Reynol) Cheng, ANU
- Nicola Cheyne, Griffith
- Andrew Childs, Griffith
- Lok Lee Cho, University of Hong Kong
- Hazel D’Cruz, VicTrack
- Chloe Debarge, Edith Cowan University
- Jared Dmello, University of Adelaide
- Seyeh Dulleh, Zeal Disability Services
- Dunya Elhayek, UNSW
- Justin Ellis, University of Newcastle
- Ashley Elridge-Burton
- Luca Etournaud, University of Sydney
- Moses Faleolo, Victoria University of Wellington
- Stefanie Flowers, Director of Public Prosecutions
- Ebony Franzi-Jones, Swinburne
- Jessica Garvey, Griffith University
- Isabella Grover, Vanguard Investments Australia
- Alara Güner, University of Newcastle
- Kendrick Guo, University of Sydney
- Charlotte Hanson, University of Sydney
- Bridget Harris, Monash University
- Lauren Harrison, Department for Education
- Tahlia Hart, Finders University
- Kay Heinecke, LaTrobe University
- Mohammad Pizuar Hossain, Monash University
- Amy Hudson, Swinburne
- Robert Hulse, University of Canberra
- Alison Husain, Griffith
- Indya Jones, Griffith
- Geberew Mekonnen, Charles Sturt University
- Maria Min Jung Kim, University of Auckland
- Jayesh Kunnath Joseph, Kerala Police Academy
- Olivia Larsen, QLD Police Service
- Aimee Lawler, ANU
- Leo S.F. Lin, Charles Sturt University
- Katie Logos, University of Adelaide
- Rita Lok, University of Queensland
- Benjamin Martyn, QLD Police Service
- Carolyn McKay, University of Sydney
- Peschk Mezek-Tatler, Adelaide University
- Irena Misirlic, Griffith University
- Anton Moiseienko, ANU
- Claire Moran, Monash University
- Trent Morrison-Francis, Griffith
- Ryan Neelyanickal, University of Melbourne
- Wendy O’Brien, Deakin
- Manas Pandey, Victoria University
- Lillian Penny, Sunshine Coast Council
- Swe Zin Linn Phyu, Auckland University of Technology
- James Popham, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Anastasia Powell, RMIT
- Hena Prince, University of the Sunshine Coast
- Emma Quilty, Monash
- Kymberly Radivojevic, Murdoch University
- Dimitri Razos, University of Melbourne
- Riley Reign, Insight PBS
- Alexandra Ridgway, RMIT
- Shane Ryan, Griffith
- Sahana Sarkar, Flinders University
- Lora Scampoli, Healing Lotus
- Tabetha Senior, NSW Department of Communities and Justice
- Irnasya Shafira, Monash University
- Emma Shakespeare, Griffith University
- Helen Simpson, University of Wollongong
- Jason Smith, Salvation Army
- Russell Smith, Flinders University
- Georgia Smyth, Parliament of Victoria
- Greg Stratton, RMIT
- Meghann Sutton, Murdoch University
- Sue Sweeney, University of the Sunshine Coast
- Victor Taumoepeau, University of Auckland
- Kiara Troop, Deakin
- Rebecca Tscheresch, Diabetes SA
- Lara Thompson, University of Queensland
- Hamuera Tutaki, University of Otago
- Marie-Pier Villeneuve-Dubuc, University of Montreal-Deakin
- Ashley Watts, Queensland Corrective Services
- Jackson Wood, Deakin
- Mark Wood, Deakin
- You Zhou, Monash