Social Media Homicide Confessions

Elizabeth Yardley is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University. Her research explores homicide and violence, with a particular focus on networked media in and around these crimes. She is the creator and host of Crime Bites Podcast and has successfully publicised her research to a wide range of people via her blogposts on contemporary criminological issues at http://blogs.bcu.ac.uk/views/author/id113382/ She tweets as @ProfLizYardley

• From ‘happy slapping’ to ‘Facebook murder’: networked media in violent crimeHomicide and media: ‘realities’ and ‘representations’Media in homicide: from consumption to participationApproach to the studyThe murder of Jennifer AlfonsoThe Janzen familicideThe murder of Charles TaylorDiscussion: the complex contexts of social media homicide confessions

"In this revealing study of media technology and homicide, Yardley opens up a whole new field of study. A genuine pathbreaker for today's criminologists, social scientists, practitioners and policymakers." Steve Hall, Professor of Criminology, Teesside University