Andrew Nevin

Andrew D. Nevin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and is also affiliated with the Criminal Justice and Public Policy (CJPP) program. Dr. Nevin’s research is connected to three main areas—technology, deviance, and inequality—that converge through scholarship on the wide-ranging social implications of digital technologies, mostly with quantitative methods.

His current research agenda explores cybercrime, cyber-harassment, identity theft, as well as other topics under the umbrella of digital sociology. His larger ongoing project engages with theoretical debates within the subfield of cyber-criminology by proposing new frameworks that account for the structural differences between online and offline spaces.

The empirical application of this work investigates contextual gaps in offending, namely, why some people might engage in misbehaviours on the Internet but not similar transgressions in face-to-face environments. Dr. Nevin currently serves as co-chair for the Internet, Technology, & Digital Sociology research cluster within the Canadian Sociological Association.

Keywords: Digital Sociology; Cyber-Criminology; Crime & Deviance; Inequality; Quantitative Methods; Survey Methods

Popham, James F., Dylan Reynolds, Andrew D. Nevin, and Ryan Broll. 2025. “Exploring Adult Cyber-Harassment: Key Predictors of Victimisation”. Global Crime, 1-20.Nevin, Andrew D., Dylan Reynolds, and Jin R. Lee. 2025. “Toward a Typology of Identity Theft Victimization: A Latent Class Analysis”. Deviant Behavior, 1-19.

Nevin, Andrew D., Yimin Chen, Shuzhe Yang, and Anabel Quan-Haase. 2022. “Key Considerations in the Interpretation of Digital Trace Data.” In Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (2nd ed). London, UK: Sage.

Nevin, Andrew D. and Scott Schieman. 2021. “Technological Tethering, Digital Natives, and Challenges in the Work-Family Interface." The Sociological Quarterly 62(1):60-86.

Nevin, Andrew D. 2019. “Academic Hiring Networks and Institutional Prestige: A Case Study of Canadian Sociology." Canadian Review of Sociology 56(3):389-420.

Quan-Haase, Anabel, Andrew D. Nevin, and Veronika Lukacs. 2018. “Romantic Dissolution and Facebook Life: A Typology of Coping Strategies for Breakups." In Emerald Studies in Media and Communication: CITAMS@30 (Vol 18). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

F25 office hours: Wednesday 2:00-3:30pm, Thursdays 3:00-4:00pm

• Supervisor: Carly Morencie (SOC, PhD; Co-Supervisor – Dr. Ryan Broll)
• Committee Member: Briana Medeiros (CJPP, MA), Jiakang Zhang (SOC, MA)