Social Media Homicide Confessions: Stories of Killers and their Victims
Elizabeth Yardley
Abstract
As our interactions with others become ever more mediated by various forms of electronic communication, the relationship between crime and technology is becoming an increasingly important topic for both theoretical and practical studies of criminology. This book analyses digital communications as they play a part in contemporary homicide, drawing on a range of cases from the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world — cases where killers confessed on social media, for example, or where their actions were traced using their digital communications. Offering a groundbreaking conceptual framework ... More
Keywords: digital communications, crime, technology, criminology, homicide, electronic communication, social media
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9781447328001 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2018 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447328001.001.0001 |
