Academic Profile

Jonathan Lusthaus

Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow in Sociology

Research Interests: Cybercrime.

Jonathan is Director of The Human Cybercriminal Project at the Extra-Legal Governance Institute, Department of Sociology. His research focusses on the "human" side of profit-driven cybercrime: who cybercriminals are and how they are organised. In particular, he is interested in issues of trust, cooperation and governance. Jonathan has written widely across academic, policy and media publications, including Global Crime, Democracy and Pacific Standard. He teaches sociological theory to undergraduates. He holds a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar.