Cybercrimeology

From Frankenstein to Hulk: Understanding Cybervictimology

Episode Summary

Dr Shelly Clevenger from Sam Houston State University joins us to help me understand victimology a little better. We discuss perspectives on victims of crimes through the lens of Dr Frankenstein, Capitan America and the Incredible Hulk. We also try to understand how cybervictimology can be better placed in practice.

Episode Notes

About our Guest:

https://www.shsu.edu/~icc_www/_inc/dir.php?mode=view&item=467

https://www.shsu.edu/today@sam/T@S/article/2020/victim-studies-chair

 

Papers Mentioned in this episode :

Clevenger, S., Navarro, J. N., Marcum, C. D., & Higgins, G. E. (2018). Understanding victimology: an active-learning approach. Routledge.

https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Victimology-An-Active-Learning-Approach/Clevenger-Navarro-Marcum-Higgins/p/book/9781498772846

 

Clevenger, S. L., Navarro, J. N., & Gilliam, M. (2018). Technology and the endless “cat and mouse” game: A review of the interpersonal cybervictimization literature. Sociology Compass, 12(12), e12639.

Clevenger, S., & Gilliam, M. (2020). Intimate Partner Violence and the Internet: Perspectives. The Palgrave Handbook of International Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance, 1333-1351.

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-78440-3_58

Other:

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus 1818 by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_(comic_book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Girl

Clip at the start taken from the public domain film "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)" online at https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/jesse-james-meets-frankensteins-daughter-1966

Tiny clips from criminal minds used for an educative purpose.