Researcher Profile

  • Program Coordinator Criminology School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide

  • Causes and Prevention of Crime, Computer System Security, Crime Policy and Criminology

  • Causes and Prevention of Crime, Computer System Security, Crime Policy and Criminology

  • Holt, K. M., Holt, T. J., Cale, J., Brewer, R., & Goldsmith, A. (2021). Assessing the role of self-control and technology access on adolescent sexting and sext dissemination. Computers in Human Behavior, 106952.

    Holt, T. J., Cale, J., Brewer, R., & Goldsmith, A. (2021). Assessing the role of opportunity and low self-control in juvenile hacking. Crime and Delinquency, 67(5), 662-688.

    Bright, D., Brewer, R., & Morselli, C. (2021). Using social network analysis to study crime: Navigating the challenges of criminal justice records. Social Networks, 66, 50-64.

    Bright, D., & Brewer, R. (2020). Innovations in research on illicit networks. Global Crime, 21(1), 1-2.

    Holt, T. J., Brewer, R., & Goldsmith, A. (2019). Digital drift and the “sense of injustice”: counter-productive policing of youth cybercrime. Deviant Behavior, 40(9), 1144-1156.

    Brewer, R., Cale, J., Goldsmith, A., & Holt, T. (2018). Young people, the internet, and emerging pathways into criminality: a study of Australian adolescents. International Journal of Cyber Criminology, 12(1), 115-132.

    Brewer, R. (2017). The malleable character of brokerage and crime control: a study of policing, security and network entrepreneurialism on Melbourne’s waterfront. Policing and Society, 27(7), 712-731.

    Brewer, R., Vel-Palumbo, M. D., Hutchings, A., Holt, T., Goldsmith, A., & Maimon, D. (2019). Cybercrime prevention: theory and applications. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Lennon, C., & Brewer, R. (Eds.) (2018). Criminal Justice and Regulation Revisted: Essays in Honour of Peter Grabosky. Routledge.

    Brewer, R., Westlake, B., Hart, T., & Arauza, O. (2021). The Ethics of Web Crawling and Web Scraping in Criminological Research: Navigating Issues of Consent, Privacy and Other Potential Harms Associated with Automated Data Collection. In A. Lavorgna, & T. Holt (Eds.), Researching Cybercrimes. Cham: Palgrave.

  • Social Network Analysis And Network Disruption; Online Behaviour And Profiling, Social Influence – Micro, Meso And Macro Levels; Disinformation And Social Cohesion; Radicalisation Extremism; Social, Cognitive, Ethical and Legal Aspects Of Big Data And AIML


  • Twitter Handle     @DrRussellBrewer
    Email Address russell.brewer@adelaide.edu.au

 

Russell Brewer

Overview

Dr Russell Brewer is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Adelaide and leads the Digital Youth Research Laboratory (www.DigitalYouthReseach.org). He has a PhD from the Australian National University. His research interests include cybercrime, youth delinquency, crime prevention, and policing. He has published his research findings through several leading publication outlets, holds multiple nationally competitive grants, and has been called upon by Government Agencies both domestically and abroad to advise on policy.

Russell is an Investigator on several current multi-year Commonwealth-funded research projects, including a longitudinal study of youth pathways into cybercrime (Australian Research Council), as well as the development of novel automated software tools that detect and identify perpetrators of crime online using biometric features (Australian Institute of Criminology).