Cardiff School of Social Sciences

Research Monographs

Williams, M. (2006) Virtually Criminal: Crime, Deviance & Regulation Online, London: Routledge.

‘A fascinating account of the nature of crime committed in the context of an online virtual community … a rich ethnographic account’.

‘The extent of the qualitative work undertaken is fascinating and genuinely impressive’.

‘Scholarship moving beyond criminological theory into discussions of the information society, technology and virtual communities’.

‘Well organised and moves clearly from a discussion of different theoretical approaches to on and offline communities, the nature of “crime” and deviance, its analysis and regulation’. 

‘Written in a good and clear writing style with complex issues well explained and with a good clear argument constructed’

(anonymous reviewers)

Williams, M. & Wall, D.S. (forthcoming) Understanding Cybercrime, Milton Keynes: Open Univesity Press.

Williams, M., Adams, E., Jones, T., Noaks, L., & Tregidga, J. (forthcoming) Diversity, Crime and Control, London: Sage.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Williams, M. and Levi, M. (2009) 'Cybercrime and its Prevention', The Police Online Knowledge Area (POLKA), National Policing Improvement Agency

Wall, D.S. and Williams, M. (2009), ‘Criminological Research in the Information Age: Using the Internet to Research Crime and Justice’, in Victor Jupp et al. (Eds.) Doing Criminological Research (2^nd Edition), London: Sage.

Williams, M. (2009) ‘Cybercrime’, in Fiona Brookman et al. (Eds.) Handbook of Crime, Cullompton: Willan.

Williams, M. (2009) ‘The Virtual Neighbourhood Watch: Netizens in Action’, in Yvonne Jewkes and Majid Yar (Eds.) Handbook of Internet Crime, Cullompton: Willan.

Wall, D.S. and Williams, M. (2007), ‘Policing Diversity in the Digital Age: Maintaining Order in Virtual Communities’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 7:4, pp. 391-415.

Williams, M. (2007), "Cybercrime & Online Methodologies", in R. King & E. Wincup (Eds.) Doing Research on Crime & Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 455-472.

Williams, M. (2007), "Cybercrime on the Move", in S. Kleinman, (Ed.) Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the 21st Century, NY: Peter Lang, pp. 91-104.

Dicks, B., Mason, B., Williams, M., and Coffey, A. (2006) “Ethnography and Data Reuse: Issues of Context and Hypertext”, Methodological Innovations, 1:2.

Williams, M. (2006) "Avatar Watching: Participant Observation in Graphical Online Environments", Qualitative Research, 7:1, pp. 5-24.

Williams, M. (2006) "Policing & Cybersociety: The Maturation of Regulation within an Online Community", Policing & Society, 17:1, pp. 59-82.

Stewart, K. and Williams, M. (2005) "Researching Online Populations: The Use of Online Focus Groups for Social Research", Qualitative Research, 5:4, pp. 395-416.

Williams, M. (2004) "Computer Offences", in J. Mitchell Miller and Richard A. Wright (Ed.) Encyclopaedia of Criminology, London: Routledge, pp. 52-55.

Williams, M. (2004) "Understanding King Punisher and His Order: Vandalism in a Virtual Reality Community - Motives, Meanings and Possible Solutions" Internet Journal of Criminology.

Williams, M. and Robinson, A.L. (2004) "Problems and Prospects with Policing the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community in Wales" Policing & Society, 14:3, pp. 213-232.

Williams, M. & Robson, K. (2003) "Re-Engineering Focus Group Methodology for the Online Environment", in S. Sarina Chen & J. Hall (Eds.) Online Social Research: Methods Issues & Ethics, NY: Peter Lang, pp. 203-222.

Williams, M. (2003), "Virtually Criminal: The Aetiology of Online Deviance and Anxiety within Online Communities" in D.S. Wall (Ed.) Cyberspace Crime, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 245-254.

Williams, M., Mason, B. and Renold, E. (2003) "Using Computers in Qualitative Research" Building Research Capacity, 7.

Williams, M. (2001) "The Language of Cybercrime", in D.S. Wall (Ed.) Crime & the Internet, London: Routledge, pp. 152-166.

Williams, M. (2000) "Virtually Criminal: The Aetiology of Online Deviance and Anxiety within Online Communities", International Review of Law Computers and Technology, 14:1, pp. 95-104.

Briefing Papers

Mason, B., Williams, M., Dicks, B., Coffey, A. (2006) "Possibilities of multimedia qualitative data archiving and sharing using eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML)": Methodological Issues in Data Sharing and Archiving: Briefing Paper 1

Williams, M., Dicks, B., Coffey, A. and Mason, B. (2007) “Qualitative data sharing and reuse: mapping the ethical terrain” Methodological Issues in Data Sharing and Archiving: Briefing Paper 2

Reports

Williams, M. and Robinson, A.L. (2007), Counted In! The All Wales Survey of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People, London: Stonewall.

Williams, M. (2007)  Findings from the 2005-2006 Wales TUC Cymru Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Survey, Wales: TUC Cymru.

Robinson, A. L. & Williams, M. (2003). Counted Out: Findings from the Stonewall Cymru LGB Survey, London: Stonewall.

Williams, M. (2006) E-crime: A Rapid Evidence Assessment, Report for the Welsh Assembly Government e-Crime Steering Group.

Conference Presentations

Invited Papers

2010 'Mapping Cybercrime and its Control', eCrime Reduction Partnership Business/Government Roundtable, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, London.

2009 “Deviance and Governance in Mataverses”, German Research Foundation Conference on Virtual Worlds and Criminality, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

2009 “Online Research: Past, Present and Future”, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

2008 "Avatars, Grieving and Spoofing: Deviance and Governance in Virtual Worlds", Sheffield University School of Law, Sheffield University.

2008 "A Second (Criminal) Life?: Deviance and Control in Virtual Worlds", Triple Helix Seminar, University of Cambridge.

2008 “Governance of Virtual Worlds”, presented at Virtual Policy ’08, Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, London.

2007 “Methodological Dilemmas of Conducting Online Participant Observation”, European Science Foundation EUROQUAL Digital Methods Conference, Cardiff University.

2006 “Policing Virtual Communities”, ESRC Community Policing in an Age of Diversity Seminar Series, Cardiff University.

2006 “Avatar Watching: Participant Observation in Graphical Online Environments”, ESRC QUALITI Methods Node Seminar, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

2006 “e-Crime Rapid Evidence Assessment”, Welsh Assembly Government e-Crime Steering Group, Cardiff.

2005 “Cybercrime: Definitions, Impact and Control”, Department of Sociology Seminar Series, University of Surrey.

2005 “Digital Ethnography”, Advanced Methods in Criminology Workshop, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

2004 “Policing the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community in Wales”, Stonewall Cymru AGM, Swansea.

2004 “The Virtual Ethnographer: The Ethical Challenges of Researching Online Environments”, ESRC Online Resources Workshop at the Cathy Marsh Centre for Survey Research, Manchester University.

2003 “Policy Implications of the Stonewall Cymru All Wales LGB Survey”, launch of the Stonewall Cymru All Wales LGB Survey, Welsh Assembly.

2003 “Findings from the Stonewall Cymru All Wales LGB Survey”, Sexuality Research Group Seminar Series, Cardiff University.

2002 “Understanding and Controlling Electronic Vandalism”, ESRC Immateriality Seminar Series, Cybercrime Research Unit, Department of Law, University of Leeds.

Conference Delegate

2010 “Hate Crime in Wales: A Preliminary Statistical Analysis”, American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, San Francisco.

2007 “Homophobic Hate Crime in Wales: Patterns, Predictors and Consequences”, presented at the British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, London School of Economics.

2006 “Homophobic Victimisation Amongst Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual People in Wales”, presented at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Los Angeles.

2006 “Punishment & Cybersociety: Vigilantism and Shaming Online”, presented at the British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University.

2005 “Policing and Cybersociety: The Maturation of Regulation within an Online Community”, presented at the British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, University of Leeds.

2004 “Crime Reduction and Online Vandalism: Applying Situational Crime Prevention to Internet Contexts” presented at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Nashville.

2003 “Re-engineering Focus Group Methodology for the Online Environment”, presented at Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.

2003 “Understanding the Order of King Punisher: Vandalism in Virtual Reality Communities”, presented at 13th World Congress of Criminology, Rio de Janeiro.

2003 “Problems and Prospects with Policing the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community in Wales”, presented at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Denver.

2002 “Tackling the Virtual Vandal: Designing Out Crime within Virtual Reality Communities”, presented at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Chicago.

2001 “Virtually Criminal: Explaining Deviant Behaviour within Online Social Spaces”, presented at the Centre for Criminological and Legal Research, University of Sheffield.

2000 “Hate-Speech Online: Computer-Mediated Communication as a Vehicle for Criminality”, presented at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, San Francisco.

2000 “Burdened Text: Linguistic Subordination and Harm in Online Communities”, presented at the British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Leicester University.

1999 “Virtually Criminal: The Aetiology of Online Deviance and Anxiety”, presented at the British Criminology Conference, Liverpool John Moores University.

1998 “The Internet, Crime and Late Modernity”, presented at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Cardiff University.