Track 01
Substantive Computer Criminal Law
Offense definition, protected legal goods, cyber offenses in detail, criminal liability, and adaptation of classical imputation models to digital environments.
Cyber Criminal Investigation & Academic Output
Digital evidence, cybercrime and the network society
Institutional and educational reflection on cyber criminal investigation, digital evidence, chain of custody, and criminal policy in the digital era — gathered here with the research tracks, the doctoral thesis in progress, the research group, and the tools supporting scientific work.
Core FocusDigital Evidence
Doctoral ResearchU. Minho · JusGov
Thematic Tracks08 Lines
Legal BenchmarksCPP & Budapest
Open Tools02 Instruments
Forensic Public Utility · Front 8
Interactive Evidence Preservation Guide
A fully client-side tool for citizens, lawyers, and authorities to identify what to collect — email headers, statements with instant-payment IDs, chat logs with metadata — and compute SHA-256 hashes in the browser before filing a police report. No telemetry, no cookies.
Open Interactive Guide →Publication Support · JusGov Curation
Radar of Academic Journals (32 titles)
Where to publish: 32 criminology and criminal justice journals that accept submissions in English and charge no APC on the traditional route, per the JusGov/JusCrim curation at the University of Minho. Each entry carries publisher, thematic convergence, ideal manuscript profile, and a direct link to the submission guidelines.
Open Journal Radar →Doctoral Thesis in Progress
The criminal legal order of the network society and supranational cyber criminal policy
University of Minho, Portugal · JusGov — Research Centre for Justice and Governance
The research articulates the theory of networked law, the transformation of the criminal legal order in the information society, and the need for a supranational cyber criminal policy compatible with the cross-border nature of digital criminality. It integrates the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, international cooperation, and the criminal law challenges posed by contemporary digital transformation.
Part I
Theory of Networked Law
Theoretical foundations for analysing legal plurality, cross-border interconnection, and normative articulation in a globalised environment.
Part II
Legal-Criminal Order of the Informational Society
Challenges of offense classification, criminal authorship, digital forensics, artificial intelligence, and adaptation of classical penal categories.
Part III
Supranational Cyber Criminal Policy
International cooperation models, networked criminal justice governance, and multilateral responses to global cybercrime.
Research, Analysis & Training Tracks08 Tracks
Track 02
Cyber Criminal Investigation
Legal, methodological, and organisational challenges of investigating offenses perpetrated across digital environments, including OSINT, provider cooperation, and international requests.
Track 03
Digital Evidence & Chain of Custody
Identification, preservation, documentation, and admissibility of electronic evidence in criminal proceedings, upholding integrity, authenticity, and constitutional guarantees.
Track 04
Cybercrime & Network Society
Cyber criminality, electronic financial fraud, data protection, and emerging dynamics of organised telematic crime in the informational society.
Track 05
Supranational Cyber Criminal Policy
Budapest Convention, direct police cooperation, networked penal governance, statutory harmonisation, and institutional responses to transnational crime.
Track 06
AI, Algorithmic Bias & Public Security
Deployment of AI in law enforcement, discrimination risks, regulation, accountability, and the constitutional boundaries of automated state power.
Track 07
Hate Crimes & Online Speech
Typologies, investigation, evidentiary preservation, jurisdiction, platform liability, and criminal law responses to online hate speech.
Track 08
Police Sciences & Professional Training
Curriculum development, case studies, lesson plans, police-specific problem solving, and applied methodologies for training public agents.
Research GroupDGP/CNPq Certified
GP · COC
Organised Cybercrime Research Group
Brazilian National Police Academy · Federal Police Department · Founded 2016 · Group leader since 09 Apr 2016
2016Year founded
05Research lines
12Members and collaborators
Public DGP/CNPq indicators
15 full articles · 5 book chapters · 1 book · 44 presentations · 15 technical works · 15 completed supervisions · 163 other aggregated outputs.
High-tech crime and cyber investigation
Computer forensics, digital investigative techniques, evidence analysis, and methods applied to cybercrime enquiries.
Organised cybercrime and global illicit markets
Transnational criminal structures, illicit digital ecosystems, crypto-assets, platforms, and cybercrime value chains.
OSINT and threat intelligence
Open-source investigation, attribution, threat analysis, cyber intelligence, and technical decision support.
Online child sexual abuse and exploitation
Prevention, investigation, and prosecution of offenses against children and adolescents committed or facilitated by digital technologies.
Digital evidence, chain of custody, and international cooperation
Legality, preservation, acquisition, validity, sharing, and procedural use of digital evidence in domestic and transnational settings.
Bibliographic Output
Open the Bookstore (25 works) →Books, chapters and articles live in the Bookstore
The full catalogue — 3 authored and edited books, 6 chapters in legal collections, and 16 journal articles and editorials — lives in one place, with synopsis, table of contents, ISBN, DOI, ABNT and BibTeX citations, and an open-access link where one exists. This page does not repeat that list, so it cannot fall out of date.
Instructional & Technical MaterialNot catalogued in the Bookstore
Instructional material · 2024
Handbook on Investigating Online Hate Crime in Electoral Matters
Specialised course · ANP/ESP-PF
Course on Countering Cybercrime
Instructional material · 2010
Handbook on Investigating Online Child Sexual Abuse Material
Doctrinal Foundation
Method, legality and institutional responsibility
Producing knowledge on cyber investigation requires strict legality in evidence gathering, meticulous documentation of investigative acts, preservation of digital evidence, chain of custody (Law 13.964/2019), proportionality of precautionary measures, and unrestricted compatibility between investigative efficiency and constitutional guarantees.
At Stenio Hub Internacional these subjects are approached from an academic, institutional and educational perspective, connecting two decades of professional experience in the Brazilian Federal Police with postgraduate and doctoral legal research, police sciences, criminal law, and supranational cyber criminal policy.
Institutional Scope Notice
The content of this platform is strictly devoted to scientific research, teaching, doctrinal publication, police and judicial training, lectures, and institutional reflection. Specific cases, ongoing investigations, sensitive operational techniques, and classified data are neither discussed nor disclosed in this public space.
Research, training or academic cooperation?
For institutional contact, research projects, working groups, continuing education, or lectures in computer criminal law and digital evidence.