1st Edition

Victimisation in the Digital Age An Online/Offline Continuum Approach

Edited By Tine Munk, Morag Kennedy Copyright 2025
274 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Examining how victimisation can occur across the online-offline continuum while emphasising the need for a holistic approach to understanding and addressing contemporary harms, this book covers various themes of victimisation in the digital age linked to the interconnectedness and blurred boundaries between online and offline experiences. The book chapters provide a critical examination of how... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements 

Part I: Cybercrime and Online/Offline Harm

1.     Introduction

 Morag C. Kennedy

2.     Navigating the Online-Offline Continuum: Exploring Victims, Spaces, and Dangers

Tine Munk, Zara A. Crawford, Elliot Doornbos, Ammaarah Faisal, Naomi Graham, Ellen Harris, Craig A. Jackson, Morag C. Kennedy, Boglarka Meggyesfalvi, and Sara Rodriguez.

3.     Online-Offline: When Worlds Collide

 Philip Wane

Part II: Politically and Ideologically Motivated Harm

4.     A Cycle of Online Radicalisation, Attacks and Extremist Content: A Case Study of Four Terrrorist Acts in Norway

Thais Sardá and Karine Nordnes Skoglund

5.     An Exploration of How Online Threats can Impact Mosque Worshippers and the Factors which Enables this

 Mikhail Sulaiman Azard

6.     Online Hate, Offline Violence: Antisemitism as a Memetic Hate

Ariel Koch

7.     Deception as an Online Weapon, Does the Truth Matter?

Juan Ahmad and Tine Munk

Part III: Intimate Partner Violence and Image-based Sexual Abuse

8.     The Online Safety Act 2023: A New Dawn for Regulating Image-Based Domestic Abuse?

Kirsty Welsh

9.     Examining Cyberbullying and Cyberstalking through the Lens of Intimate Partner Violence: A Caribbean Perspective

Chantelle Cummings

10.  When Cyberspace Turns Deadly: The Significance of Online Harassment in Intimate Partner Homicide

Megan Cadwallader and Morag C. Kennedy

Part IV: Hate Crime and Minority Groups

11.  Why do We Need a Territorial Typology of Gender-based Political Violence? An Analysis of the Online and Offline Harms Suffered by Brazilian Female Politicians Defending Territory

 Luise Koch, Ladyane Souza, Maria Paula Russo Riva, and Raji Ghawi

12.  From Telegram to Tate Britain: Patriotic Alternative’s Anti-Drag Activism and Online/Offline Mobilisation

Catherine Stinton

13.  ‘Seriously, Don’t Leave Your Flat’… I was Doxxed

Grayson Bartles

Part V: New Challenges and the Future

14.  Sex Dolls and Sex Robots: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

Neil Radford

15.  Concluding Remarks, the Merger of the Online and Offline Worlds

Tine Munk

Index

Biography

Tine Munk is a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, specialising in cybercrime and cybersecurity, predominantly in political contexts. This research is reflected in publications including ‘The Rise of Politically Motivated Cyber Attacks’ (2023), ‘Memetic War: Civic Resistance in Ukraine’ (2024), and ‘Far-Right Extremism Online: Beyond the Fringe’ (2024).

Morag C. Kennedy is a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, focusing on intimate partner abuse and homicide involving digital harm, primarily considering co-victim perspectives. Recent publications include ‘They didn’t want to upset the client: Stalking in Hands-On Occupations’ (2023) and ‘Digital Coercive Control: A Male Perspective’ (2022).