Peer Reviewed Publications

O’Malley, R.L., Bolton, M.*, Ayerza, J.M.*, Covalito, K.* (2026). “I don’t feel safe at all: Examining shattered assumptions among male victims of sextortion. Journal of Interpersonal Violence

O’Malley, R.L. & Holt, K. (2026). “We Live Day by Day Now”: A Qualitative Analysis of Minor-Focused Sextortion Victim-Survivor Impact Statements. Violence and Victims. DOI: 10.1891/VV-2025-0058

Ayerza, J. M.*, Lee, J. R., O’Malley, R.L., Lee, C. S. (2026). Cyberstalking and Online Dating: Examining Cyberstalking Victimization Among Dating App Users. Asian Journal of Criminology, 21 (5). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11417-025-09480-2

O’Malley, R. L., Grosholz, J., & Ozuni, A*. (2026). What predicts law enforcement reporting among male sextortion victims? Criminal Justice and Behavior, 53(2), 252-268.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548251372902

O’Malley, R. L., & Lee, J. R. (2025). Latent Class Analysis of Internet Users: Do Low Self-Control and Deviant Online Peers Predict Class Membership? Crime & Delinquency. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287251335013

Deryol, R., & O’Malley, R. L. (2025). Cross-national patterns of traditional and cyberbullying: The role of individual and social support indicators. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152251320333

Fisher, T. Pieri, Z., Howell, C.J., O’Malley, R.L., Tremblay, L., & Dahwood, M*. (2025). Vendor Communication Themes in Darknet Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) Advertisements. Computers in Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2025.108571

Kamar, E., O’Malley, R.L., Howell, C. J., Maimon, D. & Shabat, D. (2025). “Cutie, click on the link”: A forensic analysis of URLs. Computers in Human Behavior.

O’Malley, R.L. & Smith, K*. (2024). Suicidal ideation among male victim-survivors of financial sextortion. Victims and Offenders. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2024.2379818

O’Malley, R.L., Holt, K., Holt, T.J, & Rodriguez, J*. (2023). Minor Focused Sextortion by Adult Strangers: A Crime Script Analysis of Newspaper and Court Cases. Criminology and Public Policy, 22, 179-802.

O’Malley, R. L. (2023). Short-Term and Long-Term Impacts of Financial Sextortion on Victim Mental Well-Being. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231156416

O’Malley, R.L. & Helm, B*. (2023). The Role of Perceived Victimization, Precarious Manhood, and Distress on Incel Membership Online. Deviant Behavior.

Cross, C., Holt, K., & O’Malley, R.L. (2022). “If u don’t pay they will share the pics”: Exploring sextortion in the context of romance fraud. Victims and Offenders, 00, 1-23

Cavanagh, C., Osuna, A., O’Malley, R. L., & Henke, M. (2022). COVID-19 Concerns among undocumented mothers. International Journal of Migration, Health, and Social Care. Early Cite.

Cavanagh, C., Simmons, C., O’Malley, R.L., & Frick, P.J, Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2022) Callous Unemotional Traits in Mothers and Juvenile Offenders: The Role of Maternal Traits on Youth Changes. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

O’Malley, R.L., Holt, K.M., & Holt, T.J. (2022). An Exploration of the Involuntary Celibate (Incel) Subculture Online. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37, NP4983

O’Malley, R. L. & Holt, K.M. (2022). Cyber Sextortion: An Exploratory Analysis of Different Perpetrators Engaging in A Similar Crime. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Sichel, C. E., Javdani, S., Shaw, S., & Liggett, R. (2021). A role for social media? A community‐based response to guns, gangs, and violence online. Journal of Community Psychology, 00, 1-16.

Holt, K.M, Liggett, R., Holt, T.J., & Lee, J. R. (2019). Examining self-reported physical contact with children among pedophile support forum users. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

Holt, T.J., Lee, J. R., Liggett, R., Holt, K.M., Bossler, A. (2019). Examining Perceptions of Online Harassment among Constables in England and Wales. International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence & Cybercrime, 2, 24-39.

Sichel, C.E., Javdani, S., Ueberall, S. & Liggett, R. (2019). Leveraging Youth’s Digital Literacies: The E-Responder Social Media Violence Interruption Model and Pilot Evaluation. Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 1-14