As social media use becomes increasingly widespread among adolescents, research in this
area has accumulated rapidly. Researchers have shown a growing interest in the impact of …

Objectives Despite popular notions of “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers” contributing to
radicalization, little evidence exists to support these hypotheses. However, social structure …

The rise of social media has fostered increasing instances of deviant behavior. Arguably, the
most notable of these is cyberbullying (CB), which is an increasing global concern because …

Objectives Social media platforms such as Facebook are used by both radicals and the
security services that keep them under surveillance. However, only a small percentage of …

Scholarship suggests that individuals' experiences in pretrial detention are especially
straining. Relative to state prisons, local jails have high rates of inmate and officer turnover …

Objectives: This study examines the influence of online peers who are not regularly seen in
person by considering if online, pro-delinquent support is associated with self-reported …

Purpose This study's purpose is to (1) examine how behavioral homophily relates to
deviance among friendship pairs and (2) to assess how deviance and non-deviance …

Online peer engagement has gone through rapid changes in the past decades, largely due
to the rise of social network platforms and availability of new digital technologies. Academic …

As youth transition from childhood to adolescence, they spend significantly more time with
peers and are highly attuned to peer feedback, which becomes central to identity formation …

Compared to the offline world, the online environment is more anonymous and therefore
less easily controlled. Criminological theories generally show that people are more likely to …