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

"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

• 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

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

"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

• 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

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

"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

• 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