Digital Criminology

3 credit hours · Undergraduate

The emerging field of digital criminology provides the necessary tools to address the broad effects of digital technology on crime, law, victimization, and policing. While theories of cybercrime look at a specific subsection of criminality and deviance involving the use of online and computer technology, digital criminology opens up a broader criminological theorization of crime, deviance, and justice in our digital society. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach that accounts for the multiplicity of digital technology’s impacts and the increasingly false binary between “online” and “offline” crimes.