About
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Suleman Lazarus is a Visiting Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). At the LSE, Dr Lazarus is engaged in collaborative research projects, including (a) "Cybercrime Against Senior Citizens", (b) "Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice", (c) "Convicted Cryptocurrency Fraudsters," (d) "Love, Lies and Larceny," and (e)"Human Trafficking, Job Scams, and Cybercrime Intersections." Additionally, he is conducting a solo research project titled (a) Citation Politics, and North–South Power Dynamics" and (b) "Cybercriminal Networks and Insights from the ‘Black Axe’ Confraternity." Previously, he served as a Visiting Researcher in the Geography Department at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2019 to 2020.
EDUCATION
Dr Suleman Lazarus holds a multidisciplinary PhD from the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth (UoP). Before that, he earned a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before university, he attended Lambeth College in London, where he completed his pre-university qualifications. His academic journey continued at the University of Greenwich (UoG), where he obtained a bachelor’s degree with First-Class Honours in 2013. He received the University Merit Award for achieving the highest classification in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES
Dr Suleman Lazarus is an Associate Editor of a journal, Digital Threats: Research and Practice. He also serves as a referee for many established journals, such as the following:
- Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
- Social Science Computer Review
- Computer Law and Security Review
- Children and Youth Service Review
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Journal of Family Studies
- Journal of Crime and Justice
Expertise
Cybercrime, Digital fraud, Human trafficking, Disinformation, Anticolonial criminology
Research
His multidisciplinary research interests include (1) Cybercrime academies called Hustle Kingdoms, (2) Human trafficking-cybercrime intersections, (3) Social control agents and the classification of cybercriminals, (4) Online fraudsters and colonial legacies, (5) Ageing, ageism, and cyber abuse, (6) Feminism and the Tripartite Cybercrime Framework, (7) Child punishment across cultures, and (8) Citation politics, prestige economies, and North–South power dynamics.
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