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Dr Craig Webber

Associate Professor in Criminology, Departmental Director of Teaching Programmes, Head of Department

Dr Craig Webber is Associate Professor in Criminology within Sociology at the University of Southampton.

Dr Craig Webber is Associate Professor of Criminology. I joined Southampton in 1999 and have taken the main role in creating one of the first British Psychological Society accredited Criminology and Psychology joint honours degrees in a Russell group University. This has developed into one of the highest recruiting programmes in the department. I have 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.

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Research interests

My 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. My 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.

Research project(s)

Structural analysis of online criminal social networks

Unpicking the privacy paradox: can structuration theory help to explain location-based privacy decisions?

Undergraduate Programme Director for Sociology Social Policy and Criminology and Programme leader for BSc (Hons) Criminology and Psychology.

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Articles

Webber, C. (2021). Rediscovering the relative deprivation and crime debate: tracking its fortunes from left realism to the precariat. Critical Criminology, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-021-09554-4
Webber, C., & Yip, M. (2018). The rise of Chinese cyber warriors: towards a theoretical model of online hacktivism. International Journal of Cyber Criminology, 12(1), 230-254. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1467901
Van Hardeveld, G. J., Webber, C., & O'Hara, K. (2017). Deviating from the cybercriminal script: exploring tools of anonymity (mis)used by carders on cryptomarkets. American Behavioral Scientist, 61(11), 1244-1266. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764217734271
Yip, M., Webber, C., & Shadbolt, N. (2013). Trust among cybercriminals? Carding forums, uncertainty and implications for policing. Policing and Society, 23(4), 516-539. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2013.780227
Webber, C. (2007). Background, foreground, foresight: the third dimension of cultural criminology? Crime, Media, Culture, 3(2), 139-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659007078539
Webber, C. (2007). Revaluating relative deprivation theory. Theoretical Criminology, 11(1), 97-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480607072737
Webber, C. (2003). Youth, crime and aspiration. Criminal Justice Matters: Youth and crime, (54).

Books

Webber, C. (2019). Psychology and crime: A transdisciplinary perspective. (2 ed.) (Key Approaches to Criminology). SAGE Publications.
Webber, C. (2009). Psychology and crime. (Key Approaches to Criminology). SAGE Publications.

Book Chapters

Pickering, B., Roth, S., & Webber, C. (2021). Ethical approaches to studying cybercrime: considerations, practice and experience in the United Kingdom. In A. Lavorgna, & T. J. Holt (Eds.), Researching Cybercrimes: Methodologies, Ethics, and Critical Approaches (pp. 347-369). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74837-1
Webber, C. (2019). Cybercrime. In E. McLaughlin, & J. Muncie (Eds.), The Sage Dictionary of Criminology (4th ed.). SAGE Publications.
Webber, C., & Yip, M. (2019). Humanising the cybercriminal: Markets, forums and the carding subculture. In R. Leukfeldt, & T. J. Holt (Eds.), Cybercrime: The Human Factor (1st ed.). (Routledge Studies in Crime and Society). Routledge.
Webber, C. (2017). Cybercrime. In A. Brisman, E. Carrabine, & N. South (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts Routledge.
Webber, C. (2017). Relative deprivation. In A. Brisman, E. Carrabine, & N. South (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts Routledge.
Webber, C. (2014). Hackers and cybercrime. In R. Atkinson (Ed.), Shades of Deviance (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis.
Webber, C. (2012). Cops, robbers and masked vigilantes: teaching through representations of crime. In J. Billsberry, & P. Leonard (Eds.), Moving Images: Effective Teaching with Film and Television in Management Information Age Publishing.
Webber, C., & Yip, M. (2012). Drifting on and off-line: humanising the cyber criminal. In S. Winlow, & R. Atkinson (Eds.), New Directions in Crime and Deviancy (pp. 191-205). Routledge.
Zafeiropoulou, A. M., O'Hara, K., Millard, D., & Webber, C. (2012). Location data and privacy: a framework for analysis. In B. Stiegler (Ed.), Réseaux Sociaux: Culture Politique et Ingénierie des Réseaux Sociaux (pp. 185-200). FYP éditions.
Webber, C., & Vass, J. (2009). Crime, film and the cybernetic imagination. In Y. Jewkes, & M. Yar (Eds.), Handbook of Internet Crime (pp. 120-144). Willan.

Conferences

Year one:

Introduction to Sociological Criminology (Coordinator)

Year two:

Criminological Perspectives (Coordinator)
History of Crime and Justice (Coordinator)

Year three:

Dissertation supervision

Masters

Criminal Behaviour
Cybercrime (Coordinator)

PhD Supervision

Cosmin Angheluta

Stephen Anning

Edward Gillbard

Completed PhD Students

Dr Sahar Aljaouhari

Dr Aristea Zafeiropoulou

Dr Michael Yip

Dr Lisa Sugiura

Dr Maire Evans

Dr Neil MacEwan

Dr Gerd Van Hardeveld

Office and Feedback Hours 1-3 Fridays, email for appointment outside of these hours.

Dr Craig Webber
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

Room Number: 58/4065

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