Social Media Criminal Justice Issues

Media can impact individuals understanding about the operations of the criminal justice system in different ways. Three ways media impacts individuals are based off the fear of crime, attitudes, and police effectiveness.

In tune with the worldwide development and popularity of Hip Hop music, “a symbiotic relationship between culture and law”1 has emerged. “Culture shapes the law, and law is a product of culture”.2 Our society is reminded and alerted to daily neighborhood, state and national crimes via not only online and television news forums, but the various social platforms now heavily relied on: YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. However, it can be argued that these new advances in technology and

The Supreme Court case, Packingham v. North Carolina (2016) debates whether convicted and registered sex offenders should be limited in their social media usage on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, which are most predominantly populated by minors. The constitutionality of North Carolina’s criminal law is being debated as it considers it a felony for any person registered as a sex offender in the state of North Carolina to have an account on social media sites such as Facebook, or any social media platforms that allow minors to have an account. The current North Carolina law is unconstitutional as it limits a clear example of free speech, and does so in a very broad and unjustified way,

Social media is especially useful when it comes to investigations. Police officers have learned that, in using social networks to spread certain cases to the public, more information is retrieved. For instance, sending out an image of the criminal to news stations that later display it to the public often leads to feedback about the whereabouts of the criminal as seen by a citizen. Likewise, through social media accounts, we are more capable of seeing things such as who the criminal associates themselves with, as well as their whereabouts, or places they are likely to go through photo geotagging.

This can cause serious problems within the criminal justice system. Social media plays a massive role in the way that news is allocated within society. However, because of this large role it plays, it also interferes with the investigation and results of a particular criminal action. One can imagine how swiftly he or she learned about the horrific shooting incident that happened in Sandy Hook Elementary School or the unfortunate killing of Trayvon Martin and how George Zimmerman was prosecuted based on the public’s online response.

Countries such as China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan are all on the brink of banning the use of all social media in their countries. These countries are still waiting to reap the benefits, if any, from watching its citizens and vice versa. All the countries seem to get close to banning social media, but the citizens come together and prove how watching each other on social media can help. These countries have all experienced the positive and negative affects that of the use of social media in their countries. Another form of watching that is taking place is through the sports world in America. Any athlete at such a distinguished level will say how limited they are in what they post on their social media accounts. There are too many young and influential minds that could easily repeat a bad act. One of the worst forms of watching or, in this case, being watched is through terrorist organizations. These organizations will lure in easily influenced kids to get them to fight against the United States. Social media watching is not all sunshine and rainbows, it can turn out to be thunderous when it comes to

The main argument of this text is social media being an investigative object. The authors of this text clearly illustrate how social media has acted as an investigative object.

Criminal factors: Just as law enforcement uses social media platforms as a means of networking, criminals can do the same. The pooling of like minds can create mob

Because social media websites like Facebook, twitter, and Instagram have only recently gained widespread popularity; the law is still unsettled, particularly in the areas of evidence and discovery. However, it is evolving rapidly, as issues regarding access to social media increasingly arise during

a. An interesting point I found was the contribution of the criminal justice system to an ideology. The ideology is explained as the set of beliefs that formulate and justify the existing state of affairs and its unfairness. The message being conveyed by the criminal justice system is that the result of criminality is from a single persons weakness versus the inequities of the social class (177, 2). I find this interesting that the failures of the individual is being the pinpoint of criminality and that social inequity is being preserved in the doing so.

Social media is moving rapidly towards pervasive connectivity that will have an impact on how digital search warrants should be granted. The majority of Americans on a daily basis utilize social media and the vast amount of the exchanged information is beyond measurable. Due to overwhelming social media usage, there is heightened concern among the public over what can be accessed by law enforcement officials and what should be the scope of their search warrants.

As each year passes, there never comes a time that the Internet continues to spread its influence to further parts of the world. The internet gives benefits to anyone who uses the global-reaching technology. People are now able to connect to other individuals who they otherwise would not have met and share vast amounts of information in only a few seconds. However, some people with malicious intent uses that technology to harm or even destroy the rest of the population’s lives. In such a situation, communities with access to the Internet raise questions on how one should effectively use internet security to protect their members on the internet. Yet, much information, private or otherwise, are accessible with the right investigative techniques. Home addresses, credit card numbers, private relationships, organizational affiliations, and medical histories are just some of the many kinds of information that people can easily access with enough knowledge in techniques in hacking and simple secondary research. In addition to a large amount of indifference toward protecting private digital property, another obstacle for internet security is the excessive sharing of personal information among various digital platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Encouragement to share information for self-promotion and for criminal cases makes internet privacy even more difficult to attain.

Social network has become popular way to make friends in recent years. According to daily mail, the UK police receive calls about Facebook every forty minutes. ‘In 2011 only, there are 12300 crimes related to Facebook including murder, rape, kidnap, child sex offences, assault, death threats, witness intimidation and fraud.’ Famous social network sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin have provided their users with conveniences however they have also become the tools of new trend of cyber crime which is social network crime. Criminals use fake personal profile to cheat on victims following with fraud, robbery, and even rape. The negative attitudes of

In the world according to the population clock there are about 7.2 billion people on Earth, and about 320 million people in the United States. Social media has grown and spread drastically around the world, media sites like Facebook (1.3 billion) users, Instagram (300 million) users, and Twitter (288 million) users, will be the main networks that will be focus on for this research. This research proposal will discuss criminals use of social media. The main question of the research is : Is it safe to post and interact with social media without worrying about being targeted? The aim of this research is explanatory because more information is needed to fully understand why this is happening. The research will reveal crimes that had occurred during use of social media. Why do these crimes occur? what influences criminals to do these types of crimes? The following crimes like burglary, cyberstalking, phishing, social engineering, malware, and spyware. Looking at location on photos or status ' to find someones location, identity theft, cat fishing, and cyber bullying have been linked to social media. I will also focus on the victims who have suffered from these crimes with the use of surveys and

With the advancement of technology come the advanced criminals. The internet has become one of the biggest tools for criminals by making it easier to commit some of the oldest crimes such as theft, extortion, and money laundering. The criminal does not have to be present to commit crime; this means there is a broader area to find victims. They can interact