Dr. Kevin F. Steinmetz
Professor, Criminology Program Coordinator
Ph.D., Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, 2014
M.S., Criminal Justice, Eastern Kentucky University, 2010
B.S., Police Studies, Eastern Kentucky University, 2008
Research and Teaching Interests: Cybercrime, Critical Criminology, Popular Culture and Crime.
Dr. Kevin Steinmetz is a criminologist on faculty within the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. He maintains multiple research interests but his primary area of study is cybercrime and control. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as The British Journal of Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, Theoretical Criminology, Deviant Behavior, and Critical Criminology, to name a few.
Be sure to check out his books, Against Cybercrime: Toward a Realist Criminology of Computer Crime (Routledge), Video Games, Crime, and Control: Getting Played (Routledge), Hacked: A Radical Approach to Hacker Culture and Crime (NYU Press), Technocrime and Criminological Theory (Routledge, co-edited with Matt R. Nobles), and the fourth edition of Cybercrime & Society (Sage, co-authored with Majid Yar).