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, Inequality and Criminal Justice.
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, Race & Justice, and Critical Criminology, to name a few. In 2018, he was awarded the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from his alma mater, Eastern Kentucky University. In 2022, he was given the Critical Criminologist of the Year award by the American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice.
Dr. Steinmetz is currently serving as the Chair of the American Society of Criminology's Division of Cybercrime. For any questions about the division, please email him or check out the division's website.
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).