Crowdsourcing Criminology: Social Media and Citizen Policing in Missing Person Cases

Criminology is undergoing a process of innovation and experimentation with the rise of social media. Although police have traditionally been the locus of legal enforcement, ordinary citizens are increasingly afforded opportunities to participate in crowdsourced investigations. In this article, we ex...

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Main Authors: Garry Gray, Brigitte Benning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-12-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019893700