Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Westlake, B., & Mahan, I. (2023). An international survey of BDSM practitioner demographics: The evolution of purpose for, participation in, and engagement with, kink activities. The Journal of Sex Research.http://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2273266 [PDF]
  • Logos, K., Brewer, R., Langos, C., & Westlake, B. (2023). Establishing a framework for the ethical and legal use of web scrapers by cybercrime and cybersecurity researchers: Learnings from a systematic review of Australian research. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, eaad023 https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlit/eaad023 [PDF]
  • Westlake, B., & Guerra, E. (2023). Using file and folder naming and structuring to improve automated detection of child sexual abuse images on the Dark Web. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, 47(December), 301620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2023.301620 [PDF]
  • Brewer, R., Westlake, B., Swearingen, T., Patterson, S., Bright, D., Ross, A., Logos, K., & Michalski, D. (2023). Advancing child sexual abuse investigations using biometrics and social network analysis. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 668, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.52922/ti78948 [PDF]
  • Westlake, B., Brewer, R., Swearingen, T., Ross, A., Patterson, S., Michalski, D., Hole, M., Logos, K., Frank, R., Bright, D., & Afana, E. (2022). Developing automated methods to detect and match face and voice biometrics in child sexual abuse videos. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 648, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.52922/ti78566. [PDF]
  • Epstein, B., & Westlake, B. G. (2019). Determination of vehicle speed from recorded video using reverse projection photogrammetry and file metadata. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 64(5), 1523-1529. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14053. [PDF]
  • Westlake, B. G. (2018). Delineating victims from perpetrators: Prosecuting self-produced child pornography in Youth Criminal Justice Systems. International Journal of Cyber Criminology, 12(1), 255-268. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1467907. [PDF]
  • Westlake, B. G., Bouchard, M., & Frank, R. (2017). Assessing the validity of automated webcrawlers as data collection tools to investigate online child sexual exploitation. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 29(7), 685-708. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1079063215616818. [PDF]
  • Paulhus, D. L., Westlake, B. G., Calvez, S. S., & Harms, P. D. (2013). Self-presentation style in job interviews: The role of personality and culture. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43(10), 2042-2059. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12157. [PDF]


Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

  • Lin, H. Y., Moh, T. S., & Westlake, B. (2021, December). Gun violence news information retrieval using BERT as sequencing tagging task. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. Orlando, USA, 15-18 December (pp. 2525-2531). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData52589.2021.9671919. [PDF]
  • Westlake, B. G., Bouchard, M., & Frank, R. (2012, September). Comparing methods for detecting child exploitation content online. In 2012 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference. Odense, Denmark, 22-24 August (pp. 156-163). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EISIC.2012.25. [PDF]
  • Joffres, K., Bouchard, M., Frank, R., & Westlake, B. G. (2011, October). Strategies to disrupt online child pornography networks. In 2011 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference. Athens, Greece, 12-14 September (pp. 163-170). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EISIC.2011.32. [PDF]
  • Frank, R., Westlake, B. G., & Bouchard, M. (2010, August). The structure and content of online child exploitation. In ISI-KDD ’10 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Washington, USA, 25-28 July (Article 3). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1938606.1938609. [PDF]