The Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention at Virginia Tech is a hub for research on the causes and consequences of violence and strategies for peace.
Thank you to the participants in the sixth Cultivating Peace: A Student Symposium on Violence Prevention and Peace Building. A great group of student scholars presented. Thanks Henry Yampolsky for a tremendous workshop on mediation skills.
Excited to announce that the CPSVP is putting together a conference on hate and hate crimes. Dr Jack Levin will be a keynote speaker, and selected papers will be included in the Research Handbook on Hate Crime and Society. Send in your abstract soon! #nohatecrime
#Cybercrime in businesses is rising. Researchers Jay Albanese, Thomas Dearden, Randy Gainey, Jim Hawdon, Katalin Parti, Tancy Vandecar-Burdin from VT, ODU, and VCU are aiming to map the latest trends in an effort to help develop prevention strategies.
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Our participants report seeing fake news on a variety of social media platforms. The three biggest were Facebook (30%), YouTube (15%), and Twitter (12%).
Our data shows almost half, 48%, of participants said they have seen fake news about COVID-19 in the past 12 months. Participants were evenly split on whether the fake news was making COVID-19 seem more or less serious than it really is.
CPSVP faculty K Parti, T Dearden, J Hawdon, and colleagues from Hungary & Finland received funding from the Center for European Union Transatlantic and Trans-European Space Studies #virginiatech to collect data on #cybercrime perpetration and #cybervictimization in the 3 nations.
Who are the victims of cybercrime? Our data shows that males and females are both targets, with 38% of females and 40% of males having experienced cybervictimization in the past 12 months. They are targets of different types of crimes, stay tuned to find out more. #cybercrimelab
Are you a #cybercrime researcher? Our team
@CPSVPVT has just published an open-access dataset on a nationally representative sample of adult Americans on #cyberoffending and #victimization. All are welcome to download and investigate:
https://t.co/n5NcMAGZ4A
Are you a #cybercrime researcher? Our team @CPSVPVT has just published an open-access dataset on a nationally representative sample of adult Americans on #cyberoffending and #victimization. All are welcome to download and play around: https://t.co/n5NcMAHwU8
Online scams are everywhere, especially during the holidays. Our data @CybercriminologyLab show that computer familiarity (self-report) is not really a protective factor for #olderindividuals, especially when it doesn't pair with applying technical guardians.
Online scams are everywhere, especially during the holidays. Our data @CybercriminologyLab show that computer familiarity (self-report) is not really a protective factor for #olderindividuals, especially when it doesn't pair with applying technical guardians.
Our data @CybercriminologyLab show that computer familiarity is not really a protective factor for #olderindividuals, especially when it doesn't pair with applying tech guardians. Living alone or with a partner without children makes seniors also more vulnerable.
Happy to announce that a special issue of the American Journal of Criminal Justice on cybercrime published with @SpringerNature will be out soon. Here's my guest editor's introduction https://t.co/L1PTDtB5YR #cybercriminology
#CPSVP and #CybercriminologyLab affiliates @deardent and @KatalinParti have published a new article on #cybercrime. Differential association, self-control and social learning in cybercrime. Check out the article in AJCJ's special issue on cybercrime here https://t.co/hnjsAj0q56