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Overview

Thomas J. Holt is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Computer Science, with a notable focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Communication, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence, Spam and Phishing Detection, and Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment.

Thomas J. Holt has published papers in several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include Crime & Delinquency, Deviant Behavior, Computers in Human Behavior, Social Science Computer Review, and Terrorism and Political Violence.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Thomas J. Holt include:

  • Examining the Online Expression of Ideology among Far-Right Extremist Forum Users, 2020, Terrorism and Political Violence
  • An Exploration of the Involuntary Celibate (Incel) Subculture Online, 2020, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Examining incel subculture on Reddit, 2022, Journal of Crime and Justice
  • The Use of Military Profiles in Romance Fraud Schemes, 2021, Victims & Offenders
  • The Human Factor of Cybercrime, 2021, Social Science Computer Review

Thomas J. Holt collaborates frequently with other researchers in their field. Key coauthors include Joshua D. Freilich, Steven M. Chermak, Cassandra Cross, Jesse Cale, and Rutger Leukfeldt.

They have contributed to book publications, including a work published by the Australian Institute of Criminology eBooks titled Responding to cybercrime: results of a comparison between community members and police personnel in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Examining the Applicability of Lifestyle-Routine Activities Theory for Cybercrime Victimization

    Thomas J. Holt;Adam M. Bossler

  • On-line Activities, Guardianship, and Malware Infection: An Examination of Routine Activities Theory

    Adam M. Bossler;Thomas J. Holt

  • An Assessment of the Current State of Cybercrime Scholarship

    Thomas J. Holt;Adam M. Bossler

  • subcultural evolution? examining the influence of on- and off-line experiences on deviant subcultures

    Thomas J. Holt

  • Low Self-Control, Deviant Peer Associations, and Juvenile Cyberdeviance

    Thomas J. Holt;Adam M. Bossler;David C. May

  • Bullying victimization and adolescent mental health: General and typological effects across sex

    Michael G. Turner;M. Lyn Exum;Robert Brame;Thomas J. Holt

  • Exploring stolen data markets online: products and market forces

    Thomas J. Holt;Eric Lampke

  • The Effect of Self-Control on Victimization in the Cyberworld

    Adam M. Bossler;Thomas J. Holt

  • Predicting Online Harassment Victimization Among a Juvenile Population

    Adam M. Bossler;Thomas J. Holt;David C. May

  • A Crime Script Analysis of the Online Stolen Data Market

    Alice Hutchings;Thomas J. Holt

  • Examining Sex Work from the Client's Perspective: Assessing Johns Using on-line Data

    Thomas J. Holt;Kristie R. Blevins

  • Considering the pedophile subculture online.

    Thomas J. Holt;Kristie R. Blevins;Natasha Burkert

  • Cybercrime in Progress: Theory and prevention of technology-enabled offenses

    Thomas J. Holt;Adam M. Bossler

  • SOCIAL LEARNING AND CYBER-DEVIANCE: EXAMINING THE IMPORTANCE OF A FULL SOCIAL LEARNING MODEL IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD

    Thomas J. Holt;George W. Burruss;Adam M. Bossler

  • Examining the Virtual Subculture of Johns

    Kristie R. Blevins;Thomas J. Holt

  • Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: An Introduction

    Thomas J. Holt;Adam M. Bossler;Kathryn C. Seigfried-Spellar

  • Examining the Forces Shaping Cybercrime Markets Online

    Thomas J. Holt

  • Examining the social networks of malware writers and hackers

    Thomas J. Holt;Deborah Strumsky;Olga Smirnova;Max Kilger

  • Transferring Subcultural Knowledge On-Line: Practices and Beliefs of Persistent Digital Pirates

    Thomas J. Holt;Heith Copes

  • Examining the Relationship Between Routine Activities and Malware Infection Indicators

    Thomas J. Holt;Adam M. Bossler

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven M. Chermak
Steven M. Chermak Michigan State University
Joshua D. Freilich
Joshua D. Freilich John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Heith Copes
Heith Copes University of Alabama at Birmingham
Clark McCauley
Clark McCauley Bryn Mawr College
Bonnie S. Fisher
Bonnie S. Fisher University of Cincinnati
Robert Brame
Robert Brame University of South Carolina

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