RT Article
T1 Editorial - "Information Pollution, Crimes, Harms, and Criminal Justice: Untangling the Nexus"
JF European journal on criminal policy and research
VO 31
IS 3
SP 371
OP 376
A1 Miró Llinares, Fernando
A1 Lavorgna, Anita
A2 Lavorgna, Anita
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1938564898
AB Although information pollution is not a new phenomenon, the expansion of social media and the new architecture of cyberspace have profoundly transformed both its scale and impact. From a criminological perspective, the creation and propagation of polluted information is now considered a distinguishing criminogenic and harming feature of our societies that, beyond enabling or facilitating diverse harms, can have a direct impact on a broad range of crimes both online and offline, and shape public opinion about crime and deviance. Through this Special Issue, we further stimulate criminological thinking in this direction, recognizing the unique insights that criminological imagination can offer in unpacking, understanding and countering information pollution.
K1 Digital criminology
K1 Disinformation
K1 Harms
K1 Information pollution
K1 Misinformation
K1 Social Media
DO 10.1007/s10610-025-09644-x