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Summary and review
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This chapter has overviewed a variety of ways that the internet may prove useful for those doing criminological research. First, it provides a valuable range of freely accessible resources including articles that can serve as the basis of your literature review and secondary data that you can use as the basis for answering your own research questions. Second, it considered how web-based content can provide the basis for a criminological study, including, for example, crime-related discourse and criminal behaviour found on websites and social media platforms. Third, it examined how you might use the internet to find and engage research participants, by adapting familiar research techniques (interviews, surveys) to the online setting. Fourth, it introduced the practice of virtual ethnography, where the researcher engages in par- ticipant observation of online groups and communities. A number of case studies and examples have been offered to illustrate how these techniques have been put to practical use by social and criminological researchers. All of the above approaches offer important new avenues for the researcher to explore criminological topics, but they also have some drawbacks and limitations as well as advantages and benefits, and these have been noted so that you can take them into account when planning and executing your own research project.
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