Researching Cybercrime in the European Union: Asking the Right Ethics Questions

Toledo, Francisco Javier Castro; Miró-Llinares, Fernando

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-74837-1_16

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“…For the general ethical challenges of cybercrime research (i.e. privacy and other legal issues, informed consent, protecting the participants and researchers), see (Castro-Toledo and Miró-Llinares, 2021). In our experience, compared to generic ethics committees, a criminological ethics committee is likely to be more aware of the complexities of criminological research and understand the use of more intrusive methodologies when justified.…”

Section: Ethical and Emotional Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fieldwork Experiences Researching Cybercriminals

Moneva¹,

Leukfeldt²,

Romagna³

2023

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Cybercriminals are an elusive population to study. This makes social research with cybercriminals as valuable as it is scarce. To stimulate research on cybercriminals, it is important that researchers share their insights on successful and unsuccessful approaches, strategies, and techniques. This chapter collects our fieldwork experiences researching cybercriminals, potential cybercriminals, hackers, and hacktivists. After presenting the phases of our fieldwork, we outline six research techniques we have applied and discuss the ethical issues involved. We conclude with some lessons learned and methodological perspectives to guide future research.

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Section: Ethical and Emotional Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%