This research is going places: Cyberspace topology and online offender mobility

Podcast: Cybercrimeology · Cybercrimeology

Opublikowano: 2026-11-01

Asier's interest in the geometry of crime began during his PhD, when he noticed that research on cybercrime often drew on routine activities and rational choice perspectives but paid comparatively little attention to the places where crime occurs. His earlier mentor, a police officer, also influenced his interest in applying research to practical problems.Defining a place is not necessarily straightforward, even in the physical world. Asier explains why researchers need clear boundaries and operational definitions to make places measurable and comparable.Drawing on geography, computer science and environmental criminology, Asier and his colleagues developed five criteria for identifying cyber...