Crime, Justice and Social Media - 9781138919662

Name: Crime, Justice and Social Media - 9781138919662
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Crime, Justice and Social MediaAuthor(s): Michael Salter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138919662, 978-1138919662\nSynopsis\nHow 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.\n\nCrime, Justice and Social Media argues that online abuse is not discontinuous with established patterns of inequality but rather intersects with and amplifies them. Embedded within social media platforms are inducements to abuse and harass other users who are rarely provided with the tools to protect themselves or interrupt the abuse of ot.