David S. Wall

David S. Wall is a British criminologist and Professor of Criminology at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, who directed that centre from 2000 to 2005 and later headed the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University from 2011 to 2014 before returning to Leeds in 2015. Wall specializes in the study of crime and information technology, particularly policing and cybercrime, organized crime and intellectual property crime, examining how digital networks have transformed both the character of criminal activity and the methods available to investigate it. Since 2015 he has been a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and a member of the Technical Board for the University of Oxford's Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Academy of Social Sciences.