Expertise

Subject Areas:

  • Cyber and Transnational Crime
  • Policing

Dr. Diana Dolliver’s cyber-related research focuses on darknet-based criminality (e.g., drugs and weapons trafficking, malware, human trafficking) and network analysis. Her current projects involve a longitudinal study of illicit markets on the Tor Network, and analysis of cyber attacks launched against a large university’s networks.

Dr. Diana Dolliver’s policing-based research focuses on police use-of-force, community policing, active shooter preparedness, and police practices in the digital age.

Research Areas:

  • Criminality on Darknets
  • Cryptocurrency Investigations
  • Digital Forensics
  • Cybersecurity and Warfare
  • Law Enforcement
  • Drugs and Crime
  • Comparative Criminology

Dolliver’s areas of expertise include Tor-based criminality, law enforcement (use of force, community policing, active shooter preparedness, and use of technology), and digital forensics.

More broadly, Dolliver also examines socio-cultural aspects of cybercrime, transnational organized crime and drug trafficking, and the existing links between these criminal phenomena.

Communities
Criminology
Degrees
PhD, Northeastern University, Criminology and Justice Policy, 2013
MS, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Criminal Justice, 2008
BA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, International Studies, 2006
BA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Criminal Justice, 2006