Julia Davidson

University of East London | UEL · Institute for Health and Human Development

Researching cybercriminality to design new methods to prevent, investigate and mitigate cybercriminal behaviour. This is one of the largest studies to date exploring youth cybercriminality. The survey is informed by 5 key disciplines: cyberpsychology, criminology, psychology, neuroscience, and digital anthropology Results confirm that cybercrime an...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) infringement fine announcements on the market value of mostly European publicly listed companies with a view to reinforcing the importance of data privacy compliance, thereby informing cyber security investment strategies for organisations. Design/me...

Cybercrime is becoming ever more pervasive and yet the lack of consensus surrounding what constitutes a cybercrime has a significant impact on society, legal and policy response, and academic research. Difficulties in understanding cybercrime begin with the variability in terminology and lack of consistency in cybercrime legislation across jurisdic...

Previous studies concerning the economic impact of security events on publicly listed companies have focussed on the negative effect of data breaches and cyberattacks with a view to encouraging firms to improve their cyber security posture to avoid such incidents. This paper is an initial study on the impact of investment in human capital related t...

Previous studies have shown (varying degrees of) evidence of a negative impact of data breach announcements on the share price of publicly listed companies. Following on from this research, further studies have been carried out in assessing the economic impact of the introduction of legislation in this area to encourage firms to invest in cyber sec...

Recent research on the economic impact of data breach announcements on publicly listed companies was found to be sparse, with the majority of existing studies having a strong US bias. Here, a dataset of 45 data breach disclosures between 2017 and 2019 relevant to European publicly listed companies was hand-gathered (from various sources) and detail...

This chapter considers child online protection in the context of a study funded by the European Commission which explored industry and policing practice in the prevention and investigation of online child sexual abuse cases. The research was conducted in four EU countries (United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, and the Netherlands) and employed a mixed-me...

Rwanda is committed to the roll out of ICT technology and ensuring that children and adolescents benefit from it. Rwanda is a regional leader in embracing digital innovation under the leadership of His Excellency Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, Vice-Chair of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. It is in this posit...

International Perspectives on Child Victimisation offers a comprehensive overview of the established themes and emergent debates relating to the abuse and victimization of children. Highlighting key areas of global concern, and illustrated with detailed case studies of important developments, Christopher Hamerton and Julia Davidson address child ab...

This review focuses on addressing: trends, to understand recent developments and anticipate emerging issues; online risk of harm to children and implications for safety policy and practice; and key findings, linking to original reports, highlighting useful graphs and including verbatim quotes from children where available.

This is an EC ISEC funded study that explored policing and industry practice in the prevention of online child sexual abuse and explored young people's experience of online victimisation . The research spanned 4 EU countries (the UK, Italy , Ireland and the Netherlands) and included national police surveys (3 countries) and national surveys of yout...

This research has sought to explore the theoretical context of community treatment programmes for those convicted of sexual offences against children in the United Kingdom. The aim was also to explore the application of this theoretical framework to one such programme run by a probation service. The research was longitudinal employing a combination...