What are the baby steps for criminal hackers, for online money mules and for unique passionate research? Dr Rutger Leukfeldt is here to discuss how innovative research ideas are turned into research projects, the baby steps that might be common on the path to black hat hacking and how understandings of money mule culture can fuel insights from large scale research on social media platforms. Vanessa Henri joins us again to answer my silly question 'What is the crappy part of working as a lawyer?'
About our Guests:
https://nscr.nl/en/medewerker/dr-rutger-leukfeldt/
Vanessa Henri
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessahenri
Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:
L. M. J. Bekkers & E. R. Leukfeldt (2022) Recruiting money mules on instagram: a qualitative examination of the online involvement mechanisms of cybercrime, Deviant Behavior, DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2022.2073298
Peelen, A. A. E., van de Weijer, S. G. A., van den Berg, C. J. W., & Leukfeldt, E. R. (2022). Employment Opportunities for Applicants with Cybercrime Records: A Field Experiment. Social Science Computer Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393221085706
Other:
I had a lot of issues with the equalization on this one. My apologies if the apparent volume varies too much through the episode for your tastes.