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SUMMARY:Reviewing Cybercrime\; Epistemology\, Political Economy and Models
  - Dr Michael McGuire\, University of Surrey
DTSTART:20131203T161500Z
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CONTACT:Laurent Simon
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:*\nThe recent publication of the UK Home Office’s 
 paper “Cybercrime - a Review of the Evidence” forms a useful departure
  point for considering the way knowledge around online offending is curren
 tly produced and disseminated. As an evidence review\, the aim of the pape
 r was to assemble as comprehensive and up-to-date an overview of cybercrim
 e as possible. But recurring issues around the availability and quality of
  evidence as well as the kind of evidence considered relevant by the resea
 rch sponsors had important effects upon the content of the review. Equally
 \, if not more important to its conclusions was the way the construct of 
 ‘cybercrime’ was interpreted and presented within the typology underly
 ing the offending categories. In this paper I set out a background to the 
 research and consider some of the key methodological issues which arose\, 
 in particular the balances which had to be made between available knowledg
 e\, political expediency and the kinds of harmful behaviours considered wo
 rthy of inclusion within the review. I relate some of these issues to wide
 r problems in the field of cybercrime research and link these problems to 
 the technological fetishism which infects much of the thinking within this
  field. I conclude by outlining an alternative\, more socially based conce
 ptual model which I argue offers a more robust and\, in the long term\, ad
 aptable framework for the understanding and policing of ICT enabled crime.
 \n\n\n*Bio:*\nDr Michael McGuire is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in th
 e University of Surrey and has a particular interest in the study of techn
 ology and its impacts upon the justice system. His first book Hypercrime: 
 The New Geometry of Harm (Glasshouse\, 2008)\, critiqued the notion of cyb
 ercrime as a way of modelling computer enabled offending and was was award
 ed the 2008 British Society of Criminology runners up Book Prize. His most
  recent publication - Technology\, Crime & Justice: The Question Concernin
 g Technomia (Routledge\, 2012) - provides one of the first overviews of th
 e fundamental shifts in crime and the justice system arising from new tech
 nologies. His theoretical research is completed by a range of applied stud
 ies in this area\, including recent work on the impacts of E-crime upon UK
  retail for the British Retail Consortium\; a study of Organised Digital C
 rime Groups for BAE/Detica and a comprehensive evidence review of cybercri
 me for the Home Office. \n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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