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The Criminologist's Guide to Trust & Safety
Translating Criminology into the Work of Keeping Online Platforms Safe
A CrimRxiv Consortium resource — making criminology useful. Find free, open-access criminology research at CrimRxiv.
Criminologists already know how to study harm, deviance, and the people who cause and suffer it. Trust & Safety is where that knowledge meets the platforms where harm now happens.
The handbook
Four parts, one path from criminology to Trust & Safety
Part 1
What is Trust & Safety, actually?
A practitioner translation of Trust & Safety for criminologists — the sub-disciplines, the day-to-day, and the glossary you need on day one.
Part 2
What criminology already knows
A curated, annotated bibliography of criminology that bears on online harm: fraud, harassment, child exploitation, extremism, tech-facilitated abuse, and platform governance.
Part 3
What should be studied
Understudied research questions about Trust & Safety — each sized for one researcher in one quarter, with seed citations and a feasibility note.
Part 4
Trust & Safety as a criminology-adjacent career
Plain-market reality. What translates from a criminology PhD, what does not, conservative salary bands, a 6-month pivot plan, and the candid downsides.
Interactive
Two tools to make the pivot tangible
Self-assessment
Is Trust & Safety right for you?
A short self-assessment across several sub-dimensions. Composite letter-grade result, personalized next steps, and a share-card you can post.
Skills translator
From criminology to Trust & Safety framing
Type a research skill or experience; get back a Trust & Safety translation and a sharable result card.
Use & reuse
Free to read, fork, and remix
Everything on this site is licensed CC BY 4.0. The source is on GitHub, each versioned release has a permanent DOI, and the about page has BibTeX, APA, and Chicago entries. Published by the CrimRxiv Consortium.