Book Chapters


  • Brewer, R., Westlake, B., Hart, T., & Arauza, O. (2021). The ethics of web crawling and web scraping in criminological research: Navigating issues of consent, privacy and other potential harms associated with automated data collection. In A. Lavorgna & T. Holt (Eds.), Researching cybercrimes (pp.435-456). Palgrave Macmillian: Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74837-1_22. [PDF]
  • Westlake, B. G. (2020). The past, present, and future of online child sexual exploitation: Summarizing the evolution of production, distribution, and detection. In T. Holt & A. Bossler (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of international cybercrime and cyberdeviance (pp.1225 1253). Palgrave Macmillian, Cham. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78440-3_52. [PDF]
  • Westlake, B. G., & Frank, R. (2016). Seeing the forest through the trees: Identifying key players in online child sexual exploitation distribution networks. In T. Holt (Ed.), Cybercrime through an interdisciplinary lens (pp.189-209). New York: Routledge. doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315618456. [PDF]
  • Bouchard, M., & Westlake, B. (2016). La détection de communautés au sein de réseaux criminels en ligne et ses implications pour les recherches en co-délinquance. In R. Boivin & C. Morselli (Eds.), Les réseaux criminels. Montreal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal.