Emerald Studies in Digital Crime, Technology and Social Harms

Editorial team

Series Editors

James Martin is an Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Australia. He is also the leader of the Disrupting Cyber Harms research theme at the Deakin Cyber Research and Innovation Centre. James has long-standing research expertise in cryptomarkets and the online illicit drugs trade, and has also published on cyber-policing and organised crime, ransomware and dark web research ethics. James has also led large-scale research projects examining cybercrime funded by the Australian Institute of Criminology. 

Meropi Tzanetakis is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute for Sociology and Social Research at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She previously served as Assistant Professor in Digital Criminology at the University of Manchester and has held visiting positions at the Universities of Essex, Oslo, and the HIIG in Berlin. Meropi holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Vienna. Her research explores the socio-technical dynamics of digital drug markets, digital platform business models, and inclusive AI, trust, security, and governance. She is PI of the Austrian Science Fund project ‘A socio-technical framework for online drug markets’. Meropi serves as Series Editor of Emerald Studies in Digital Crime, Technology, and Social Harms, chairs the Working Group on European Drug Policy of the European Society of Criminology, sits on the Editorial Board of Kriminologisches Journal, and is an elected board member of the Economic Sociology Research Network, European Sociological Association.

Vasileios (Vas) Karagiannopoulos is an Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity at the University of Portsmouth’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He serves as the Co-Director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime (CCEC) and is also the lead for online harms, cybercrime and AI for the Portsmouth Policing Academic Centre of Excellence. Vasileios is also the Director of the award-winning Cybercrime Awareness Clinic, an innovation hub that provides research-driven cybersecurity advice to businesses, schools, and vulnerable community groups and co-chair of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Ethics Committee. With a multidisciplinary background in law, criminology, cybersecurity and AI, Dr. Karagiannopoulos' research focuses on the intersection of law, technology, politics and security, with specific expertise in hacktivism, cybercrime and cyber-awareness education, and the ethical and risk implications of Artificial Intelligence. 

Series Editorial Board

Asia Pacific

• Professor Mark Andrejevic, Monash University
• Professor Rod Broadhurst, Australian National University
• Dr Akane Kanai, Monash University
• Dr Monique Mann, Queensland University of Technology
• Dr Brady Robards, Monash University
• Dr Campbell Wilson, Monash University
• Asher Flynn, Monash University

Europe

• Professor Ross Coomber, University of Liverpool
• Dr Rutger Leukfeldt, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement
• Dr Adrian Scott, Goldsmiths, University of London
• Professor Majid Yar, Lancaster University North America
• Associate Professor Michael Adorjan, University of Calgary
• Professor Walter DeKeseredy, West Virginia University
• Professor Benoît Dupont, University of Montreal
• Associate Professor David Maimon, Georgia State University
• Assistant Professor James Popham, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Dr Fiona Vera-Gray, Durham University