Publications by ICCRI Members
Academic Publications:
- Louden, R., Frank, R. Disinformation and democratic threats: Insights from the 2019 Canadian federal election, Journal of Social Media Research, Vol 2 No 2 https://doi.org/10.29329/jsomer.1
- Litterer, S., Scivens, R., Wojciechowski, T., Frank, R. Exploring the Evolution of Posting Behavior and Language Use in a Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Forum, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
- Warkentin, N., Zhang, C., Frank, R. : The Business of Ransomware and its Effects on Business, Journal: Journal of Cyber Security Technology, upcoming 2025 https://doi.org/10.1080/23742917.2025.2454620
- Champion, A.; Ryu, H.; Oswald, F.; Miin Miin Chai, A.; Corrado, R.; Frank, R.; Davies, G. A Pandemic within a Pandemic: Metro Vancouver Womens Experience with Intimate Partner Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic", Journal of Family Violence, Nov 2024
- Scrivens, R., Wojciechowski, T.W., Gaudette, T., Frank, R. Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists, Terrorism and Political Violence, Nov 2024 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546553.2024.2416153
- Scrivens, R., Freilich, J.D., Chermak, S.M., Frank, R. Data Collection in Online Terrorism and Extremism Research: Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, June 2024
- Warkentin, N., Decary-Hetu, D., Frank, R. Communities of Inquiry for Offenders: Learning Malware Development on Asynchronous Platforms, Deviant Behavior, July 2024
- Szigeti, A., Frank, R., Kiss, T. Contribution to the harm assessment of darknet markets: topic modelling drug reviews on Dark0de Reborn, Crime Science, 13, Article number: 13 (2024)
- Louden, R., Frank, R. Information Trolls and Democracy: A Qualitative Examination of Disinformation Campaigns in Canada, Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, Jan 2024
- Scrivens, R., Chermak, S., Freilich, J., Frank, R. Testing a Probabilistic Model of Desistance from Online Posting in a Right-Wing Extremist Forum: Distinguishing between Violent and Non-Violent Users International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Jan 7 2024
- Movahedi, F., Frank, R. Identifying key players in a network of child exploitation websites using Principal Component Analysis, Computer Science Journal of Moldova", V.31 N.2(92), 2023
- Liu, S., Frank, R., Warkentin, N. Drugs for Sale! An Analysis and Estimation of Drug Products on the Cryptomarket Ecosystem, 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56)
- Szigeti, A., Frank, R., Kiss, T. Trust Factors in the Social Figuration of Online Drug Trafficking: A Qualitative Content Analysis on a Darknet Market, Special Issue of the Dark Web with the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, March 2023
- Scrivens, R., Davies, G., Gaudette, T., Frank, R. Comparing Online Posting Typologies among Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, July 2022
- Helm, B., Scrivens, R., Holt, T.J., Chermak, S.M., Frank, R. Examining Incel Subculture on Reddit, Journal of Crime and Justice, 2022
- Zhang, C., Frank, R., Warkentin, N., Zakimi, N.: Accessible from the Open Web: A Qualitative Analysis of the Available Open-source Information Involving Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure, Journal of Cybersecurity, 2022
- Cartwright, B., Weir, G., Frank, R., Padda, K.: Detecting and Responding to Hostile Disinformation Activities on Social Media using Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks, Neural Computing and Applications, 2022
- Scrivens, R., Wojciechowski, T., Freilich, J.,; Chermak, S., Frank, R., Differentiating Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists, Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2022
- Westlake, B., Brewer, R., Swearingen, T., Ross, A., Patterson, S., Michalski, D., Hole, M., Logos, K., Frank, R., Bright, D., Afana, E., Developing automated methods to detect and match face and voice biometrics in child sexual abuse videos. Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 648. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. 2022 https://doi.org/10.52922/ti78566
- Hodgkinson, T., Andresen, M.A., Frank, R., & Pringle, D. (2022). Crime down in the Paris of the prairies: Spatial effects of COVID-19 and crime during lockdown in Saskatoon, Canada. Journal of Criminal Justice, in press.
- Cartwright, B. and Weir, G. R. S., and Lau, L. (Eds). (2016). Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics, Vancouver, Canada, June 2016. IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
- Bouchard, M., Joffres, K., & Frank, R. (2014). Preliminary Analytical Considerations in Designing a Terrorism and Extremism Online Network Extractor. Computational Models of Complex Systems, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 53,171-184
- Westlake, B., Bouchard, M., & Frank, R. (2012). Comparing Methods for Detecting Child Exploitation Content Online. In Proceedings of the 2012 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC).
- Westlake, B., Bouchard, M., & Frank, R. (2011). Finding the Key Players in Online Child Exploitation Networks. Policy & Internet, 3, 1-32.
- Basamanowicz, J., & Bouchard, M. (2011). Overcoming the Warez Paradox: Situational Crime Prevention and Warez Scene Piracy. Policy & Internet, 3, 1-25.
- Joffres, K., Bouchard, M., Frank, R. & Westlake, B. (2011) Strategies to Disrupt Online Child Pornography Networks. In Proceedings of the 2011 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC).
*This presentation has received the Honorable Mention Award.
- Frank, R., Westlake, B., & Bouchard, M. (2010). The Structure and Content of Online Child Exploitation Networks. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (KDD).
Other Publications:
Presentations:
- Barry Cartwright (with Richard Frank). Keynote Speaker. May 2020. Cyber-Attacks on Canadian Businesses: The Sum of All Fears, or Much Ado 911勛圖 Nothing? Meeting of the Canadian Mortgage Brokers Association.
- Barry Cartwright. August 2019. Keynote speaker, International Perspectives on Cybercrime Symposium, University, of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Title of speech: Disinformation Warfare and the Weaponization of Social Media.
- Barry Cartwright. May 2019. Title of presentation: Fake News and the Weaponization of Cloud-based Social Media: Prospects for Legislation and Regulation. Tenth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDS, and Virtualization, Venice, Italy.
- Barry Cartwright. May 2019. Title of presentation: Fighting disinformation warfare with artificial intelligence: Identifying and combating disinformation attacks. Tenth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDS, and Virtualization, Venice, Italy.
- Barry Cartwright. August 2017. Keynote speaker, International Perspectives on Cybercrime Symposium, University, of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Title of speech: Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Warfare: A Clear and Present Danger, the Sum of All Fears, or Much To Do 911勛圖 Nothing?
- Barry Cartwright. May 2017. Keynote speaker, Third Annual Symposium on Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond, B.C. Title of speech: Cyberbullying and The Law of the Horse: A Canadian Perspective.
- Barry Cartwright. June 2016. Cyberbullying and cyber law: A Canadian perspective. International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics, Vancouver, Canada.
- Barry Cartwright. June 2014. Keynote speaker, conference on Cybercrime, Security and Digital Forensics, University, of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Title of speech: The Battle-Line between Cyber Libertarians and Cyber Cops: The Changing Face of Canadian Cyber Law.
- Barry Cartwright. August 2013. International Conference on CyberCrime and Computer Forensics, Hong Kong. Title of presentation: Ethical, Legal and Methodological Considerations in Cyber Research: Conducting a Cyberethnography of www.bullying.org.
- Barry Cartwright. October, 2011. Keynote Speaker, Tri-City Joint Family Court & Youth Justice Committee learning series, at Coquitlam Campus of Douglas College. Title of speech: Cyber-bullying: Not Just a School Problem.
- Barry Cartwright. February, 2011. Western Society of Criminology conference, Vancouver, British Columbia. Title of presentation: Conducting Cyber-Research on Bullying: A Qualitative, Textual Analysis of www.bullying.org.
- Barry Cartwright. February 2007. Western Society of Criminology conference, Scottsdale, Arizona. Title of presentation: Internet Research and Canadian Copyright Law: Privacy, Publicity, Private Property and Power.
- Cartwright, B. E. (2011, February). Conducting Cyber-Research on Bullying: A Qualitative, Textual Analysis of www.bullying.org. Presented at the 2011 Western Society of Criminology Conference.
- Frank, R., & Westlake, B. (2011, May). Determining Key Players in Online Child Exploitation Networks. Presented at 911勛圖 Surrey Open House, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (Criminology).
- Frank, R., Westlake, B., & Bouchard, M. (2011, February). Extracting Dark Cyber Networks. Presented at the 2011 Western Society of Criminology Conference.