Communities of Inquiry for Offenders: Learning Malware Development on Asynchronous Platforms
Communities of Inquiry for Offenders: Learning Malware Development on Asynchronous Platforms
Noelle Warkentin David Décary-Hétu Richard Frank a Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canadab Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, CanadaNoelle Warkentin is a PhD candidate in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada. She received her B.A. (Hons.) degree in psychology from the University of Manitoba, and her M.A. in criminology from SFU (2021). Her research interests include cybersecurity, cyber-warfare, cyber threats against Canada’s critical infrastructure, darknet markets, and the psychology of cyberoffenders.David Décary-Hétu has a Ph.D. in criminology from the Université de Montréal (2013), and is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Criminology of the Université de Montréal. The main research interests of Prof. Décary-Hétu focus on the impacts of technology on crime. Through his innovative approach based on big and small data, as well as social network analysis, Prof. Décary-Hétu studies how offenders adopt and use technologies, and how that shapes the regulation of offenses, as well as how researchers can study offenders and offenses. Prof. Décary-Hétu is the Chair of the Darknet and Anonymity Research Centre (DARC) that was funded by the John R. Evans Leaders Funds from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. His team collects and studies data from all types of offenders who use anonymity technologies such as the darkweb, cryptocurrencies and encryption. He has published in leading academic journals and is invited regularly in the news media to comment on recent events. Prof. Décary-Hétu is involved in many partnerships and initiatives including Open Criminology, the revue Criminologie, the Division of Cybercrime of the American Society of Criminology and the Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership.Richard Frank completed a PhD in Computer Science and another PhD in Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU). Dr. Frank is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology at SFU, Canada and Director of the International CyberCrime Research Centre (ICCRC). His research focus is cybercrime, with a particular interest in researching hackers and security issues, the dark web, online terrorism and warfare, eLaundering and cryptocurrencies, and online child exploitation.