Copycat Crime

How Media, Technology, and Digital Culture Inspire Criminal Behavior and Violence

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvJacqueline B. Helfgott,USA) Helfgott, Jacqueline B. (Seattle University,Jacqueline B Helfgott

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Details the new phenomena of copycat crime inspired by technology and the hyperreality fueled in some people by digital culture and video games.Across her 30-year career in criminology, author Jacqueline Helfgott has watched with fascination and fear as the world has shifted from a place where one-dimensional televised news each evening and newspapers bought each morning provided the only information on crimes and killings. Now, nonstop, instant global news coverage on 24-hour television and the internet enables people to see and replay not only crime, violence, terrorism, and murder coverage provided by journalists in real time, but also Facebook and YouTube feeds filmed by the criminals themselves while perpetrating the crimes.In this riveting text about the consequences of our technical, digital, and cultural changes, Helfgott focuses on how these advances are perpetuating this era's new and more massively deadly acts. The book intertwines vignettes from current events, perpetrator statements, police reports, and current research to show how copycat crimes are linked to media, technology, and our digital culture. Concluding with recommendations to reduce the criminogenic effects of media, technology, and digital culture, this book also includes an appendix listing technology- and media-influenced copycat crimes.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-19
Mått158 x 238 x 26 mm
Vikt700 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
MedarbetareSurette,Ray
ISBN9781440864209

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Foreword by Ray SurettePrefaceAcknowledgments1. How Media, Technology, and Digital Culture Have Changed Criminal Behavior and Violence2. How Media and Technology Shape Modus Operandi and Signature Elements of Criminal Behavior3. The Copycat Effect on Criminal Behavior: A Theory of Copycat and Media-Mediated Crime4. Case Studies of Copycat and Media-Mediated Crimes5. Copycat Crime in the Courts: Implications for Civil Rights and Criminal Justice6. From the Ethical Realm of the Real, to the Aesthetic Realm of the Hyperreal, to the Digital Realm of the Unreal: What the Future Holds and What We Can Do About ItAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

The CEOs of Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple need to read this book. We gamble with our future to ignore the nexus among criminality, technology, media, and the digital world. Dr. Helfgott is the first to give us a road map into this darkness-virtually unknown and often ill considered. It brings me hope for our children and grandchildren whose lives will be fully lived both online and on the ground.