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Crime, justice and social media

Part of the New directions in critical criminology series
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How is social media changing contemporary understandings of crime and injustice, and what contribution can it make to justice-seeking?

Abuse on social media often involves betrayals of trust and invasions of privacy that range from the public circulation of intimate photographs to mass campaigns of public abuse and harassment using platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, 8chan and Reddit - forms of abuse that disproportionately target women and children. 'Crime, Justice and Social Media' argues that online abuse is not discontinuous with established patterns of inequality but rather intersects with and amplifies them.

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Product Details
Routledge
1317419057 / 9781317419051
eBook (EPUB)
302.231
04/10/2016
England
English
1 pages
Copy: 30%; print: 30%
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