Copycat Crime: How Media, Technology, and Digital Culture Inspire Criminal Behavior and Violence

by Jacqueline B Helfgott

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440864209
• ISBN13: 9781440864209
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years