Editorial Advisory Board
Adam Bossler PhD USA
Dr. Adam Bossler is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern University. He earned his doctorate in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Missouri - St. Louis. His current research focuses on examining the application of traditional criminological theories to cyber crime offending and victimization, how law enforcement responds to cyber crime, and exploring innovative correctional programs. The two federal grants that he is currently working on examine innovative and/or effective programs, services and management strategies for special needs correctional populations; and smart policing in a rural county. His most recent publications can be found in Crime & Delinquency, Youth & Society, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Policing, and Journal of Criminal Justice.
Ahmed Patel PhD Ireland
Ahmed PATEL received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1978 and 1984 respectively, specialising in the theory, design, implementation and performance analysis of packet switched networks. He is a lecturer and consultant in ITC and Computer Science. His research interest covers networking and application standards, network security, forensic computing, high-speed networks, heterogeneous distributed computer systems and including distributed search engines and systems for the Web. He has been involved in various national and international R&D funded programmes such as IUN, HEIC, Teltec, Informatics, SFI, COSINE, COST, RARE, ESPRIT, VALUE, RACE, ACTS, INFOSEC, AIM, FALCONE, AGIS, TELEMATICS, INCO, etc. He is involved in lecturing at the Intensive Program on Information and Communication Security Summer and Winter Schools held in Europe on the topic of Cybercrime Investigations. He has published well-over 160 papers and co-authored two books on computer network security and one book on group communications, and co-edited a book distributed search systems for the Internet. He has been a “guest editor” for advanced topics in the subject areas of interest on numerous occasions for different journals. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the following International Journals: (i) Computer Communications, (ii) Computer Standards & Interface, and (iii) Digital Investigations. He serves as an invited external academic expert on review panels evaluating, validating and auditing academic course degree and certificate teaching and training programmes. He is a consultant, expert evaluator and reviewer of R&D proposals, technical and scientific auditor of R&D projects for the national, international and European Union funding agencies. He has presented papers on how to close the ITC digital divide as an invited guest at various conferences in the Middle East and North Africa. He is currently affiliated to the Centre for Network Planning, Department of Control Engineering, Aalborg University in Denmark and shortly he will be a Visiting Professor at Kingston University, United Kingdom.
Ana I. Cerezo PhD Spain
Ana Cerezo received her MS and PhD. in Criminal law and Criminology from University of Malaga in 1992 and 1998 respectively. Since 1993 she joined the Criminal Law Department at the University of Malaga where she is an Associate Professor. She teaches Criminal Law I; Criminal Law II and Criminology. During the academic year 2000/2001 she was Fulbright Visiting Researcher in the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Newark, USA. She holds other positions within the field of her expertise, such as: Prof. Cerezo is Vice-Director of Institute of Criminology in University of Malaga; President of the Spanish Society of Criminological Research (SEIC); Director of the Criminological Bulletin and Member of the Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology (ISC). Her areas of research and specialisation span the subjects of victimology, prisons, domestic violence, cybercrime, corruption and money-laundering and seizure. She has authored and co-authored six books and published well over seventeen papers in journals and conference proceedings.
Barbara Vettori, Ph.D. Italy
Dr. Barbara Vettori (1976), MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Cardiff University, 2004) and Ph.D. in Criminology (University of Trento, 2004), is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, where she teaches methodology for criminological research and statistics and techniques for crime data analysis. She is also a member of the Department of Sociology of the same University. She has 15 years of professional experience in the field of criminological research. In this time span, she took part as project manager in a variety of cross-border research and spoke at several international conferences. Her main research interests are organised and economic crime and the evaluation of related contrast policies, in particular, anti-money laundering regulation and confiscation legislation and, more recently, legislation on the disposal of confiscated assets and on criminal liability of legal entities. Since 2007, she has been member of the Informal Expert Group on Confiscation and Assets Recovery of the European Commission, DG Home Affairs and, since 2013, of the ARO Platform Subgroup on the Asset Management established by the same DG. She has also been member of the ARO Platform Subgroup on the Reuse of Confiscated Assets of the European Commission, as well as international expert for OSCE on confiscation and criminal liability of legal persons.
Bernard H. Levin, Ed.D. USA
Dr. Levin is Department Head/Social Sciences at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave, Virginia. He earned degrees from Temple University, North Carolina State University, and Virginia Tech. He is a reserve police officer with full powers in the City of Waynesboro VA; since 1997 he has been Commander of the Policy and Planning Bureau. Dr. Levin is Director, Research and Development, of the Society of Police Futurists International. He is vice chairman of the Futures Working Group, a joint venture of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Society of Police Futurists International and serves as a visiting scholar at the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI Academy. He is a member of the Traffic Law Enforcement Committee of the U. S. Transportation Research Board and the National Leadership Conference Advisory Committee of the S.C. Criminal Justice Academy as well as chairman of the Ethics Advisory Panel of the High Tech Crime Consortium. He has led a broad range of organizations, both private and public, in social service, civil liberties, corrections, and law enforcement domains. His papers have appeared in The Police Chief, Police Research & Management, Community Services Catalyst, Journal of Higher Education, Law Enforcement Technology, Crime and Justice International, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, and numerous others. He has presented on criminal justice topics at meetings of, among others, the World Future Society, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Southern Criminal Justice Association, and the Police Executive Research Forum.
Bernard Jouga, France
Bernard Jouga got an Engineer Degree from Supelec in 1982. He is a Professor at Supelec, and has been teaching Computer Science and Computer Networks for more than 20 years, in Supelec and in french universities. He is a former co-leader of the NISS (Networks and Information Systems Security) Supelec’s research team. He managed several projects dealing with Computer Security and had a strong partnership on Computer Forensic issues with the DGA (French equivalent of the DARPA). He is a member of the IFIP Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics, and was in the organizing and program commitees of SADFE 2005, the first international workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering. He is now Associate Director, Research and Industry Partnerships for the campus of Rennes of Supelec, and still involved in research in Computer Security. He is also at the head of the recently formed GIS SSI (Scientific Interest Group on Information Systems Security), gathering research teams from ENST Bretagne, IRISA and Supelec.
Catherine D. Marcum PhD USA
Catherine D. Marcum is an associate professor of Justice Studies in the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her current research interests are cyber crime offending and victimization, sexual victimization, and correctional issues.
Chi Sung Laih PhD Taiwan
Chi Sung Laih is the distinguished professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, located in Tainan, Taiwan. Besides, he is the Dean in the Department of Information Technology at Kun Shan University from August, 2005. During 1997-2003, he was selected as the chairman of the Board of Directors of Chinese Cryptology and Information Security Association (CCISA). In addition, he was the Director of Computer and Network Center, NCKU from August 1999 to July 2005. His research interests include Cryptology, Information Security, Error Control Codes and Communication Systems. Dr. Laih is a member of IEEE, ACM, IACR, and CCISA. He obtained the 1997-1998 and 1999-2000 Outstanding Research Awards from NSC, and 1999 Outstanding Talent Award from Information Month, ROC. Besides, He also received 2003 Annual Best Paper Award from JISE, and the Outstanding Contribution Award from CCISA in 2005. He was the chairman in many international conferences or workshops, including a general chair in the International Workshop on Applied PKI (IWAP) 2002, a program chair in the Asiacrypt 2003 and a general chair in the International Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE) 2005.
Chris Magee, UK
Chris Magee MIAP CFP is the Director of Forensics, Cyber Forensics, UK. Chris has been working within the electronics and IT field for over 25 years, and during that time he has worked with a variety of processors and operating systems. His work has involved the design and development of both hardware and software for systems using processor families from Intel, Motorola, AMD and others. He specialised for 10 years in the area of storage devices covering hard drives, optical drives and CD-ROM and the integration of these devices with systems using operating systems including DOS/Windows, RISC-OS, MAC-OS and OS-9. Chris was involved in the development of the first multi-platform CD-ROM drive range. For the last 8 years Chris has specialised in the forensic handling of computer devices and data, carried out computer forensic investigations and analysis and provided technical support in advanced forensic techniques. He has been responsible for training police officers and civilians from more than 12 countries in the techniques of forensic computing and analysis, whilst with Computer Forensics Ltd and since. Chris has assisted in the foundation of computer forensic laboratories in countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Turkey and The Cayman Islands, and has spoken on the subject of Forensic Computing at international conferences. Chris is trained in the use of various forensic tools including EnCase® and Cyber Examiner. He has worked on numerous cases both prosecution and defence, including work on Operation Ore, and has appeared as an expert witness in court when required.
Craig Webber PhD UK
Craig Webber is Associate Professor of Criminology and Undergraduate Programme Director (SSPC) at the University of Southampton. Dr Webber joined Southampton in 1999 and created the first British Psychological Society accredited Criminology and Psychology degree in a Russell Group University. This has developed into one of the highest recruiting programmes in the department. Dr Webber has also been central to building the links between Criminology and Web Science, an exciting development that spans the whole University to develop research and teaching at the interface of web technology and social issues. Dr Webber’s approach to criminology is to take an integrative approach to research, drawing on as many different disciplines and research techniques as necessary to provide the most robust analysis. This involves working across disciplines and building research teams that can combine often diverse approaches and techniques. His research interests range from Criminological Theory, especially the history of its development; Youth and Crime, utilising ethnographic and qualitative methods; Psychology and Crime, especially in the application of Social Identity and Self-Categorisation theories to crime; Web Science, working at a transdisciplinary level to combine different approaches to understand the nature of the social and technological interactions as they pertain to deviancy and crime on the web.
David G. Post PhD USA
David Post is currently the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at Temple University Law School, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace. He is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington DC, and the Co-Founder of ICANN Watch http://www.icannwatch.org Trained originally as a physical anthropologist, Professor Post spent two years studying the feeding ecology of yellow baboons in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, and he taught at the Columbia University Department of Anthropology from 1976 through 1981. He then attended Georgetown Law Center, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1986. After clerking with then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, he spent 6 years at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, practicing in the areas of intellectual property law and high technology commercial transactions. He then clerked again for Justice Ginsburg during her first term at the Supreme Court of the United States before joining the faculty of, first, the Georgetown University Law Center (1994 – 1997) and then the Temple University Law School (1997 – present). Professor Post is the author of Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age (West, 2003) (co-authored with Paul Schiff Berman and Patricia Bellia), now in its Second Edition (2004), as well as numerous articles on intellectual property, the law of cyberspace, and the application of complexity theory to Internet legal questions that have appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Esther Dyson=s Release 1.0, the Journal of Online Law, the University of Chicago Legal Forum, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and numerous other publications. For four years (1994 - 1998) he wrote a monthly column on law and technology (APlugging In@) for the American Lawyer, and he co-authored the monthly “On the Horizon” column for InformationWeek (with Bradford Brown) between 1998 and 2003. During 1996-1997 he conducted, along with two colleagues (Professors Larry Lessig and Eugene Volokh) the first Internet-wide online course on ACyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers@ which attracted over 20,000 subscribers. He also plays guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica in the band “Bad Dog” http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/Baddog.html and has appeared as a guest artist with the band Transistor Rodeo http://www.transistorrodeo.com, and at the New York Guitar Festival. Professor Post's writings can be accessed online at http://www.davidpost.com
David S. Wall PhD UK
David S. Wall is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leeds, where he also conducted research and teaches in the fields of criminal justice and information technology, policing and cyberlaw. He was formerly Professor of Criminology and Head of Applied School of Social Sciences at Durham University. Formerly the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, David’s specialist area of research is criminal justice and information technology an area in which he conducted many research projects and has published a wide range of articles and books. The books include Cybercrimes (Polity Press, 2007). Cyberspace Crime (ed. Ashgate/ Dartmouth, 2003), Crime and the Internet (ed. Routledge, 2001) and he co-edited The Internet, Law and Society (with Y. Akdeniz and C. Walker, Longman, 2000), he also edited two special issues of the International Review of Law, Computers and Technology on ‘E-commerce’ (Vol. 13/2, 1999) and ‘Cybercrime vs. Cyberliberties’ (Vol. 14/1, 2000). He has recently concluded research into the regulation of deviant behaviour on the internet for the AHRC. David has also published a range of books and articles within the broader field of criminal justice, including Policy Networks in Criminal Justice (ed. with M. Ryan and S. Savage, McMillan Press, 2001), The British Police: Forces and Chief Officers (with M. Stallion, Police History Society, 1999), The Chief Constables of England and Wales (Ashgate/Dartmouth, 1998), Access to Criminal Justice (ed. with R. Young, Blackstone Press, 1996), Policing in a Northern Force (with K. Bottomley, C. Coleman, D. Dixon and M. Gill, Hull University, 1991).
Dianne Martin PhD USA, UAE
C. Dianne Martin is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, the Special Assistant to the Dean and the Director of the Cyberspace Policy Institute in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University. She is currently on leave to Zayed University for 2 years as Dean of the College of IT, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She received a B.A. in economics and mathematics education from Western Maryland College, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, and an Ed.D. in teacher education from the George Washington University. She was Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (SIGCAS) from 1993-2001, served as a member of the Task Force to revise the ACM Code of Professional Ethics, and was Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC), an organization that has developed an objective content labeling system to address parental concerns about inappropriate material on the internet. Her current research interests include development and evaluation of multimedia applications, ethical and social implications of computers, and internet policy issues related to content regulation, standards, e-commerce, and e-government. She is a Fellow of the ACM.
Dorothy E. Denning PhD USA
Dorothy E. Denning is a Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis and a member of the Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at the Naval Postgraduate School. Her current research and teaching encompasses the areas of conflict and cyberspace, trust and influence, terrorism and crime, and information operations and warfare. She is author of Information Warfare and Security and has testified before the U.S. Congress on encryption policy and cyberterrorism. Dr. Denning is an ACM Fellow and recipient of the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award, the Harold F. Tipton Award, the National Computer Systems Security Award, and other security awards. She is an honorary CISSP and CISM, and was a featured security innovator in Time magazine. She received the B.A. and M.A. degrees in mathematics from the University of Michigan and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Purdue University. She has previously worked at Georgetown University, Digital Equipment Corporation, SRI International, and Purdue University.
Fawn T. Ngo PhD USA
Fawn T. Ngo is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, USA. Dr. Ngo received her B.A. in Criminology, Law & Society from the University of California, Irvine, her M.S. in Criminal Justice from the California State University, Long Beach, and her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland. Prior to her arrival at USFSM, Dr. Ngo was the Associate Academic Director for the Master Criminal Justice Distance Learning Program at the University of Cincinnati and Research Associate at the Westminster Police Department in Orange County, California. Dr. Ngo’s areas of interest include criminological theory, interpersonal violence, actuarial risk assessment, and evaluative research. Her work has appeared in Justice Quarterly, Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Criminal Justice, Victims & Offenders: The International Journal of Evidence-Based Research, Policy, and Practice, International Journal of Cyber Criminology, American Journal of Criminal Justice, and Journal of Criminology. Dr. Ngo received the Outstanding Professor Award and the Excellence in Research Award in 2014 and 2015, respectively, from the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.
George E. Higgins PhD USA
George E. Higgins is a Professor in the Department of Justice Administration at the University of Louisville. He received his Ph.D. in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. His research interests are testing criminological theories, advanced quantitative methods, Internet behaviors, and criminal justice organizations. His most recent publications appear in Criminal Justice Studies, Deviant Behavior, Youth and Society, and Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice.
Georgios A. Antonopoulos PhD UK
Georgios A. Antonopoulos obtained his PhD from the Department of Sociology and Social Policy of Durham University in the UK. He is currently Professor of Criminology at the School of Social Sciences and Law, Teesside University in the UK. His teaching and research interests include the criminality, criminalization and victimization of minority ethnic groups, qualitative research methods, (online) illegal markets and ‘organised crime’. He has conducted research for the local authorities in Britain, the British Police, the British Ministry of Justice and the European Commission. His articles have appeared in the British Journal of Criminology, European Journal of Criminology, Trends in Organised Crime, Global Crime, and Crime, Law & Social Change. He is an associate of the Cross-Border Crime Colloquium, and member of the editorial boards of the journals International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, Trends in Organised Crime and Global Crime. In 2009 he received the European Society of Criminology ‘Young Criminologist Award’.
Gillian Dempsey, PhD Australia
Gillian Dempsey is an Australian Barrister-at-Law. She holds a PhD from the Australian National University in the area of the economics of regulation of intellectual property in information technology artefacts. Dr Dempsey is the author of many papers on the regulation of information technology and its use, including publications in Managerial and Decision Economics and Law and Society. She is the co-author of Electronic Theft: Unlawful Acquisition in Cyberspace. Dr Dempsey principally practices in Intellectual Property law; Corporate Insolvency Law and complex civil fraud.
Gráinne Kirwan PhD Ireland
Dr. Gráinne Kirwan is a lecturer, researcher and author in the area of cyberpsychology. She is a lecturer in psychology in the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), Dun Laoghaire, Ireland and has previously used a career break to work as an Associate Professor in HELP University, Malaysia. She has co-authored / co-edited three books on cybercrime and cyberpsychology. She is a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a graduate member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI). She sits on the committee of the PSI Special Interest Group in Media, Art and Cyberpsychology and is on the editorial board of the journal 'Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Media'. She has been awarded over €700,000 in funding from organisations including the Irish Research Council, Enterprise Ireland, and the IOTI. In IADT, she teaches on both the BSc (Hons) in Applied Psychology and the MSc in Cyberpsychology. Modules include Introduction to Cyberpsychology and Introduction to Forensic Psychology (at undergrad level) and Psychology of Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence and Computer Mediated Communication (at postgrad level), along with research project supervision for undergraduate, masters and doctoral level students. Her areas of interest are: Cyberpsychology, Forensic Psychology, Psychology of Virtual Reality and Cyber Criminology.
Gregor Urbas PhD Australia
Dr Gregor Urbas is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University (ANU), where he teaches in Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence and Intellectual Property. He has held research positions in Australia and Europe, and in 2006 he is working at the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) as High Tech Crime Research Analyst, liaising with the Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC) hosted by the Australian Federal Police (AFP). He is co-author, with Russell Smith and Peter Grabosky, of the book Cyber Criminals on Trial, Cambridge University Press 2004, which has recently been recognized by a Distinguished Foreign Book Award from the American Society of Criminology (ASC). Dr Urbas’ most recent publication is a chapter co-written with Peter Grabosky in Cybercrime and Jurisdiction: A Global Survey (ed. Bert-Jaap Koops and Susan W. Brenner), Information and Technology Law Series no.11, TMC Asser Press, The Hague, 2006.
Henry Pontell, PhD USA
Henry N. Pontell is Professor of criminology, law and society and of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He has written on numerous topics in criminology, criminal justice, and law and society, including white-collar and corporate crime, medical fraud, financial crime, punishment and corrections, deviance and social control, crime seriousness, and more recently, identity fraud, cyber crime, and major financial debacles. He has served as vice president of the American Society of Criminology, and the president and vice-president of the Western Society of Criminology. His books include: A Capacity to Punish: The Ecology of Crime and Punishment (1984), Social Deviance (5th Ed., 2005), Prescription for Profit: How Doctors Defraud Medicaid (1993), Profit Without Honor: White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America (4th Ed. 2007), Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (1997), Contemporary Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honor of Gilbert Geis (2001, and The International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime (2006). In 2001 he received the Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association, and the Donald R. Cressey Award for lifetime contributions to the study, detection, and prevention of white-collar crime from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He is currently the Editor of the Masters Series in Criminology (Prentice Hall).
Ibrahim Baggili, PhD USA
Ibrahim “Abe” Baggili is an internationally recognized expert in cyber security and digital forensics. He is Elder Family Chair, Assistant Dean, and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, Tagliatela College of Engineering, University of New Haven, USA. He is the founder and co-director of the University of New Haven’s Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group, USA. The group, which includes student researchers, found liabilities in popular apps, including WhatsApp and Viber, that affected more than 1.5 billion users, garnering significant international media coverage. Its National Security Foundation-funded research showed that they could break into virtual reality systems – the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift – and alter what happened once they got in. Dr. Baggili works regularly with law enforcement on digital forensics to help solve crimes, and he created the Artifact Genome Project, a digital information resource for law enforcement. His work has been supported by the National Security Agency and the MITRE Corporation, which funded a project entitled “Survey for Automation of Child Abuse Investigations.” He received his Ph.D., master’s, and bachelor’s degrees in computer information technology from Purdue University, where he was a researcher at its Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) and its Cyber Forensics Laboratory. Before arriving at the University of New Haven in 2013, he was an assistant professor at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and director of the Advanced Cyber Forensics Research Laboratory, the first cyber forensics lab in the Arab region. The former editor-in-chief for the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law, Dr. Baggili investigated and co-authored “A Method and a Case Study for the Selection of the Best Available Tools for Mobile Device Forensics Using Decision Analysis,” which was published in Digital Investigation. He won the best paper award for “File Detection on Network Traffic Using Approximate Matching” at the International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime. Named to Connecticut Magazine’s “40 under 40” Class of 2018, a list of high-achievers under the age of 40 who stand out in their fields, Dr. Baggili mentors undergraduate and graduate researchers and the University’s hacking team. The team was a finalist in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition and placed second at the CyberSeed competition at UConn. He’s also the principal investigator on the GenCyber Agent Academy – funded by the NSA and NSF – a summer academy for middle and high school students to encourage interest in the STEM fields.