Michael McGuire

Dr Michael McGuire is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey, UK. He has developed an international profile in the study of cybercrime, with a special focus upon cryptocurrencies, money laundering and fraud, especially within the airline industry. He has published widely in these areas, including his books Hypercrime: The New Geometry of Harm (Glasshouse, 2008), Technology, Crime and Justice (Routledge 2012) and a range of applied studies of cybercrime, including Organised Crime in the Digital Age (2012), Cybercrime, A Review of the Evidence for the UK Home Office (2014) and a series of reports for the recent Web of Profit project (2018 & 2019) which first identified the emergence of an integrated global cybercrime economy. Dr McGuire’s work has featured widely across international media sources such as the BBC, ITV, The Guardian, Independent, Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes, Washington Post, Fox News, InfoSec, Computer Weekly and Dark Reading amongst many others. He is currently one of the lead investigators for the $1.5m ACCEPT project (Addressing Cybersecurity and Cybercrime via a co-Evolutionary aPproach to reducing human-relaTed risks) funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Science council. His new book Platform Criminality: The Next Cybercrime (Routledge) will be published in December 2020.