Social Media and Criminal Justice [Paperback]

Discussing social media-related scholarship found in criminology, legal studies, policing, courts, corrections, victimization, and crime prevention, this book presents the current state of our knowledge on the impact of social media and the major sociological frameworks employed to study the U.S. justice system.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Social Media, Criminology, the Criminal Justice System, and Human Behavior

Chapter 2: Social Media and Contemporary Mainstream Social Media Platforms

Chapter 3: Social Media and Criminology

Chapter 4: Social Media and the Police

Chapter 5: Social Media and the Courts

Chapter 6: Social Media and Corrections

Chapter 7: Social Media and Crime Prevention

Chapter 8: The Future of Social Media, Criminology, and the Criminal Justice System

Bibliography

Discussing social media-related scholarship found in criminology, legal studies, policing, courts, corrections, victimization, and crime prevention, this book presents the current state of our knowledge on the impact of social media and the major sociological frameworks employed to study the U.S. justice system.

Building a theoretical framework for the study of social media and criminal justice in each chapter, the chapters provide a systematic reflection of extant research on social media in cybercrime, operations of courts, administration of institutional and community corrections, law enforcement, and crime prevention. The book fills the gap between the contemporary state of knowledge regarding social media and criminal justice with respect to both empirical evidence and types of sociological frameworks being employed to explore and identify the societal costs and benefits of our growing dependence upon social media. In addition to providing an up-to-date overview of oulS(