Computer Laboratory

Ben Collier

Publications

Collier, B., Thomas, D., Clayton, R., Hutchings, A. & Chua, Y., 2021, “Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing: Evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services” Journal of Policing and Society

Horgan, S., Collier, B., Jones, R. & Shepherd, L., 2021, “Reterritorialising the policing of cybercrime in the post-COVID-19 era: towards a new vision of local democratic cyber-policing” Journal of Criminal Psychology

Turk, K. & Pastrana, S., & Collier, B., 2020, “A tight scrape: methodological approaches to cybercrime research data collection in adversarial environments”, WACCO 2020 : First Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations : IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2020

Matthews, B., Collier, B., McVie, S., Dibben, C. 2020, “Understanding the geography of cryptomarkets using administrative data on postal drug deliveries in Scotland”, preprint under submission

Collier, B., Horgan, S., Jones, R., Shepherd, L. 2020, “The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for cybercrime policing in Scotland: a rapid review of the evidence and future considerations”, Scottish Institute for Policing Research Briefing Paper Series - Research Evidence in Policing: Pandemics

Collier, B., Clayton, R., Hutchings, A., and Thomas, D. 2020, “Cybercrime is (often) boring: maintaining the infrastructure of cybercrime economies”, Workshop on the Economics of Information Security

Collier, B., 2020, “The power to structure: exploring social worlds of privacy, technology and power in the Tor Project”, Information, Communication and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1732440(accepted manuscript)

Collier, B. (forthcoming - preprint version), “Infrastructural power: mapping struggles over meaning, crime, and control in the Tor anonymity network”, Human Factor in Cybercrime

Bada, M., Chua, Y., Collier, B., Pete, I., (forthcoming - preprint version), “Exploring maculinities and perceptions of gender in online cybercrime subcultures”, Human Factor in Cybercrime

Hughes, J., Hutchings, A., Pastrana, S. and Collier, B., 2019, “From playing games to committing crimes: A multi-technique approach to predicting key actors on an online gaming forum”, E-Crime.

Chua, Y. and Collier B., 2019, “Fighting the “blackheart airports”: internal policing in the Chinese censorship circumvention ecosystem”, E-Crime.

Collier, B., Thomas, D., Clayton, R., and Hutchings, A., 2019, “Booting the booters: measuring the impact of law enforcement interventions on DoS markets”, Internet Measurement Conference

Hutchings, A. & Collier, B., 2019, “Inside out: Characterising cybercrimes committed inside and outside the workplace ”, WACCO 2019 : First Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations : IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019

Collier, B. and Horgan, S., 2017, “Barriers to a Cyberaware Scotland”, Scottish Justice Matters, 4 (3), p19-20