The Impact of Social Media Content on Students’ Attitudes toward Crime
Keywords:
Social Media, Crime, Networking, Youth, CriminalAbstract
This study examines how social networking sites comprises in criminal tendencies among university students and how these tools exploit as a digital tool of criminal behaviour among the 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 district Gujrat from students’ point of view. 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 analyse by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. Data is analyse by applying Univariate, 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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