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Crime, technology and society by Angus Bancroft

Author: Angus Bancroft

I'm a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh department of Sociology, studying illicit drug use, illicit markets and various shades of cyber crime. Email angus.bancroft@ed.ac.uk Tweet @angusbancroft
Posted on 22 October 202122 October 2021

Ask not ‘what is my PhD about?’ ask ‘Why am I doing this PhD?’

Posted on 20 October 2021

They not we: aesthetics of drug harm

Posted on 19 October 202119 October 2021

A counterfeit currency vendor on the darknet

Posted on 17 October 202117 October 2021

Rewriting the normal/pathological self

Posted on 28 September 202128 September 2021

Opacity as a public good

Posted on 18 August 202118 August 2021

August reading list

Posted on 16 August 202122 October 2021

Research heuristic: what device is it

Posted on 10 August 202116 August 2021

Individuated and embedded users in the heroin moral economy

Posted on 6 August 202117 August 2021

Can you choose your PhD supervisor?

Posted on 27 July 202131 March 2022

Questions to orient yourself to ontology

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