Social Media use and Criminal Tendencies: Students Perspective at Tertiary Level
Keywords:
Digital Media, Criminal, Networking, Youth, SocialAbstract
Social networking sites plays an important role in shaping the behavior of youth and act of crime are occurring all over the world weather it is a developed country or an under developing country. This research examined how social networking sites comprises in criminal tendencies among university students and how these tools exploit as a digital tool of criminal behaviour among students to highlight the criminal viewpoint. The present study aims to identify the role of social networking sites in committing criminal tendencies among the youth in Pakistani society from the viewpoint of students at tertiary level. A sampling size of 335 respondents is developed by using statistical tests. The data is collected from the students at tertiary level in district Gujrat. After the data collection, it is analyze by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. Data is analyze by applying descriptive, bivariate and Multivariate data analysis techniques. The results exposed that there is high risk of students being involved in criminal tendencies if they often use the social networking sites.
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