Roundtable: Challenges in Data Collection for Research in Cybercrime

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

Over the past several years, computer-facilitated crimes have continued to grow in number and complexity. As a result, there has been an increase in research surrounding cybercrime as well as interest from new research and methodological perspectives. While this emerging fervor for cybercrime is beneficial for the field, researchers have increasingly noted challenges in data collection. The current presentation will discuss such challenge in research cybercrimes that are presented in the literature, such as ethical considerations and problems with missing data. Through this roundtable, researchers will also discuss previous experiences, challenges, and new methodological approaches. Topics of interest of the panelists include challenges in collecting and analyzing longitudinal data, challenges with secondary data collected through governmental agencies, methodological approaches to create larger datasets from open-source information, analysis of observed and unobserved data, and methodological concerns of approximating cyber crime data.

Sub Unit

• Area XV. Roundtable Sessions

Individual Presentations

• Challenges in Data Collection for Research in Cybercrime Paper 1 - Danielle Crimmins, University of Baltimore

• Challenges in Data Collection for Research in Cybercrime Paper 2 - Tatiana Ringenberg, Indiana University

• Challenges in Data Collection for Research in Cybercrime Paper 3 - James Popham, Wilfrid Laurier University

• Challenges in Data Collection for Research in Cybercrime Paper 4 - Divya Ramjee, American University

• Challenges in Data Collection for Research in Cybercrime Paper 5 - Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam

• Challenges in Data Collection for Research in Cybercrime Paper 6 - Marie-Helen Maras, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Chair

• Marie-Helen Maras, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY