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

 

Undergraduate Courses Taught: CRIM 364 - Criminological Perspectives, CRIM 550 - Cybercrime, Security, and Society, SOCIO 423 - Methods of Social Science Research.

Graduate Courses Taught: SOCIO 842 - Technology and Society, SOCIO 862 - Criminological Theory

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 security. 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).