Copycat Crime
How Media, Technology, and Digital Culture Inspire Criminal Behavior and Violence
1st Edition
Published on 27. July 2023
360 pages
978-1-4408-6421-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-4408-6421-6 (9781440864216)
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Jacqueline B. Helfgott
Copycat Crime
How Media, Technology, and Digital Culture Inspire Criminal Behavior and Violence
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10/2023
Bloomsbury Academic
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Persons
Jacqueline B. Helfgott, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Crime and Justice Research Center in the Seattle University Department of Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Forensics.
Content
Foreword by Ray Surette
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. How Media, Technology, and Digital Culture Have Changed Criminal Behavior and Violence
2. How Media and Technology Shape Modus Operandi and Signature Elements of Criminal Behavior
3. The Copycat Effect on Criminal Behavior: A Theory of Copycat and Media-Mediated Crime
4. Case Studies of Copycat and Media-Mediated Crimes
5. Copycat Crime in the Courts: Implications for Civil Rights and Criminal Justice
6. 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 It
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. How Media, Technology, and Digital Culture Have Changed Criminal Behavior and Violence
2. How Media and Technology Shape Modus Operandi and Signature Elements of Criminal Behavior
3. The Copycat Effect on Criminal Behavior: A Theory of Copycat and Media-Mediated Crime
4. Case Studies of Copycat and Media-Mediated Crimes
5. Copycat Crime in the Courts: Implications for Civil Rights and Criminal Justice
6. 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 It
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
