Dr. Steven Downing
Title: Assistant Professor
Research interests: Currently researching informal social control within various online subcultures of software piracy.
Supervision Areas: Qualitative Methods, Cyber Ethnography, Social Control,
Technology and Society, Subcultural Theories.
Biography
Dr. Steven Downing received his PhD in Criminology from the University of Texas at Dallas. The topic of his dissertation and subsequent research is focused on the roles of formal and informal social control in shaping deviant and criminal behavior within on and offline subcultures.
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