Cybercrime and Society

About Kevin F. SteinmetzMajid Yar

I am a sociologist criminologist and cultural/media analyst with more than two decades of experience spanning academic research teaching writing editing leadership and mentoring. Educated at the Universities of York and Lancaster I have held Faculty positions at the Universities of Lancaster Kent Keele and latterly Hull where I was Professor of Sociology between 2008 and 2015. I have authored more than half a dozen scholarly books and dozens of peer-reviewed articles and also conducted social scientific research with and for government charities and business organisations. I have served as an external examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the UK as well as assessing PhD theses in the UK and Australia across the fields of sociology criminology and political theory. I serve on the Editorial Boards of a number of leading journals regularly work with and advise academic publishers in the UK and United States and provide editorial advisory and mentoring services for clients ranging from undergraduate and post-graduate students to tenured Faculty. Dr. Kevin Steinmetz is a criminologist on faculty within the Department of Sociology Anthropology and Social Work. He maintains multiple research interests but his primary area of study is technocrime and control. In addition Dr. Steinmetz examines racial inequalities within the criminal justice system as well as issues surrounding popular culture crime and crime control. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as The British Journal of Criminology Theoretical CriminologyDeviant Behavior Race & Justice and Social Justice to name a few. Be sure to check out his books Hacked: A Radical Approach to Hacker Culture and Crime (NYU Press) Technocrime and Criminological Theory (Routledge co-edited with Matt R. Nobles) and the forthcoming third edition of Cybercrime & Society (Sage co-authored with Majid Yar).