School of Social and Political Science

Ben Collier

Lecturer in Digital Methods

Picture of Ben Collier at Old College
Ben.Collier@ed.ac.uk
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Collier B, Clayton R, Hutchings A, Thomas D. Cybercrime is (often) boring: Infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture. British Journal of Criminology. 2021 Apr 15. azab026. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab026
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Matthews B, Collier B, McVie S, Dibben C. Understanding digital drug markets through the geography of postal drug deliveries in Scotland. European Journal of Criminology. 2021 Mar 4. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370821997323
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Collier B, Thomas DR, Clayton R, Hutchings A, Chua YT. Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing: Evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services. Policing and Society. 2021 Feb 10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.1883608
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Horgan S, Collier B, Jones R, Shepherd L. Re-territorialising the policing of cybercrime in the post-COVID-19 era: Towards a new vision of local democratic cyber policing. Journal of Criminal Psychology. 2021 Jan 18. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-08-2020-0034
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Vu A, Hughes J, Pete I, Collier B, Chua YT, Shumailov I et al. Turning up the dial: The evolution of a cybercrime market through set-up, stable, and Covid-19 eras. In IMC '20: Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2020. p. 551–566. (Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference). https://doi.org/10.1145/3419394.3423636
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Turk K, Pastrana S, Collier B. A tight scrape: methodological approaches to cybercrime research data collection in adversarial environments. In 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). IEEE Xplore. 2020. (IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops). https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW51379.2020.00064
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Collier B, Clayton R, Hutchings A, Thomas D. Cybercrime is (often) boring: maintaining the infrastructure of cybercrime economies. 2020. Paper presented at Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, . https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.53769
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Matthews B, McVie S, Dibben C, Collier B. Postal Delivery of Illegal Consignments into Scotland: Dataset Description. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research , 2020.
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Collier B. The power to structure: exploring social worlds of privacy, technology and power in the Tor Project. Information, Communication and Society. 2020 Feb 24. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1732440
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Collier B. Infrastructural power: dealing with abuse, crime, and control in the Tor anonymity network. In Weulen Kranenbarg M, Leukfeldt R, editors, Cybercrime in Context: The human factor in victimization, offending, and policing. 1 ed. Springer International Publishing. 2020
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Bada M, Chua YT, Collier B, Pete I. Exploring masculinities and perceptions of gender in online cybercrime subcultures. In Weulen Kranenbarg M, Leukfeldt R, editors, Cybercrime in Context: The human factor in victimization, offending, and policing. 1 ed. Springer International Publishing. 2020
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Hughes J, Collier B, Hutchings A. From playing games to committing crimes: A multi-technique approach to predicting key actors on an online gaming forum. In 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime). IEEE Xplore. 2019. (APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)). https://doi.org/10.1109/eCrime47957.2019.9037586
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Chua YT, Collier B. Fighting the “blackheart airports”: Internal policing in the Chinese censorship circumvention ecosystem. In 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime). IEEE Xplore. 2019. (APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)). https://doi.org/10.1109/eCrime47957.2019.9037500
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Collier B, Thomas D, Clayton R, Hutchings A. Booting the booters: Evaluating the effects of police interventions in the market for denial-of-service attacks. In IMC '19: Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2019. p. 50-64. (Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference). https://doi.org/10.1145/3355369.3355592
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Hutchings A, Collier B. Inside out: Characterising cybercrime committed inside and outside the workplace. In 2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). IEEE Xplore. 2019. p. 481-490. (IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops). https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW.2019.00060
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