Video Games, Crime, and Control

Kevin F. Steinmetz is a professor of criminology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University, USA. His scholarship cuts across multiple areas including cybercrime, criminological theory, racial inequality and criminal justice, gender and crime, as well as crime, criminal justice, and popular culture. He is the author of Hacked: A Radical Approach to Hacker Culture and Crime and Cybercrime and Society. His works have also appeared in prestigious outlets, including The British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, Critical Criminology, Crime Media Culture.Jonathan A. Grubb is the Military Domestic Abuse Senior Research and Evaluation Analyst for the National Organization for Victim Advocacy (NOVA). His research centers on the spatiotemporal clustering of crime, victimization of vulnerable populations, perceptions and attitudes of professionals working with victims of domestic violence as well as human trafficking, and arson within urban environments. Recent publications include Crime TV: Streaming Criminology in Popular Culture which utilizes modern television shows as a frame for understanding criminological theory.

Introduction



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