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Academic Outputs

Collier, Ben, Daniel R. Thomas, Richard Clayton, and Alice Hutchings. ‘Booting the Booters: Evaluating the Effects of Police Interventions in the Market for Denial-of-Service Attacks’. In Internet Measurement Conference, 50–64. IMC. Amsterdam, Netherlands: ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3355369.3355592.

Collier, Ben, Richard Clayton, Alice Hutchings, and Daniel R. Thomas. ‘Cybercrime Is (Often) Boring: Maintaining the Infrastructure of Cybercrime Economies’, 25. WEIS, 2020. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~bjc63/Crime_is_boring.pdf.

Collier B, Flynn G, Stewart J, et al. (2021) SCCJR briefing paper: Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state. The Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research. Available at: https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/sccjr-briefing-paper-influence-government-exploring-practices-eth (accessed 19 January 2022).

Collier B, Flynn G, Stewart J, et al. (2022) Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state. Big Data & Society 9(1). SAGE Publications Ltd: 20539517221078756. DOI: 10.1177/20539517221078756.

In preparation

Ben Collier, James Stewart, Shane Horgan, Daniel R. Thomas, Lydia Wilson (Forthcoming) INFLUENCE GOVERNMENT, PLATFORM POWER AND THE PATCHWORK PROFILE: EXPLORING THE APPROPRIATION OF TARGETED ADVERTISING INFRASTRUCTURES FOR GOVERNMENT BEHAVIOUR CHANGE CAMPAIGNS, First Monday

Shane Horgan, Ben Collier, James Stewart, Daniel R. Thomas (in prep) Influence policing Strategic communications, digital nudges, and ‘policing the polycrisis’ in preventative UK law enforcement, for British Journal of Criminology

Reports

Collier, B., Stewart, J., Horgan, S., Wilson, L. & Thomas, D. R. (2023) Influence policing: Strategic communications, digital nudges, and behaviour change marketing in Scottish and UK preventative policing, 21 Aug 2023, Scottish Institute for Policing Research. 162 p.

Collier and Stewart, “Targeted advertising, advanced marketing and behaviour change” in Building trust in the digital era: achieving Scotland’s aspirations as an ethical digital nation, Report of the Expert group on Digital Ethics for the Scottish Government, Nov 2022

Ben Collier, James Stewart, Shane Horgan, Lydia Wilson, Daniel R. Thomas (2023) Influence policing: Strategic communications, digital nudges, and behaviour change marketing in Scottish and UK preventative policing, Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR) REPORT, 21 Aug 2023

Non-academic articles

Collier B and Wilson L (2022) Governments Try to Fight Crime via Google Ads. In: New Lines Magazine. Available at: https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/governments-try-to-fight-crime-via-google-ads/ (accessed 7 January 2022).

‘Influence Government’ (2021) SCCJR: Our Blog: The Justice Stories, 8 September. Available at: https://sccjrblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/08/influence-government-the-fusion-of-behaviour-change-and-targeted-advertising-in-uk-public-bodies-and-law-enforcement/

Presentations and Conferences

Patchwork profiling in innovative government communication: Public sector adoption of targeted online advertising, at National Association of Data Protection and Freedom of Information Officers annual conference, Nov 2023 [SLIDES:NADpo new for upload]

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