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The Thin-Blue Web: Police Crime Records of Internet Trolling Show Chivalrous Attitudes That Can Be Resolved through Transfer of Powers

The Thin-Blue Web: Police Crime Records of Internet Trolling Show Chivalrous Attitudes That Can Be Resolved through Transfer of Powers

Jonathan Bishop
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781466685987|ISBN10: 1466685980|EISBN13: 9781466685994
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8598-7.ch004
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Bishop, Jonathan. "The Thin-Blue Web: Police Crime Records of Internet Trolling Show Chivalrous Attitudes That Can Be Resolved through Transfer of Powers." Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society, edited by P.E. Thomas, et al., IGI Global, 2015, pp. 67-91. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8598-7.ch004

APA

Bishop, J. (2015). The Thin-Blue Web: Police Crime Records of Internet Trolling Show Chivalrous Attitudes That Can Be Resolved through Transfer of Powers. In P. Thomas, M. Srihari, & S. Kaur (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society (pp. 67-91). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8598-7.ch004

Chicago

Bishop, Jonathan. "The Thin-Blue Web: Police Crime Records of Internet Trolling Show Chivalrous Attitudes That Can Be Resolved through Transfer of Powers." In Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society, edited by P.E. Thomas, M. Srihari, and Sandeep Kaur, 67-91. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8598-7.ch004

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Abstract

This chapter using an empirical data-driven approach to investigate crime recording logs of South Wales Police relating to Internet trolling byand towards different sexes. The chapter finds more favourable attitudes towards women as victims in even the most trivial of cases. It finds male victims of trolling are only treated as victims when a form of unwanted face-to-face encounter is needed for action. The chapter shows transferring police powers to local authorities, can cut the cost of community policing by 50% across the board and eliminate sexist attitudes also. The chapter finds that the way social media platforms are exercising ‘sysop prerogative' where they have no right to – such as not passing over account information on alleged defamers – puts a huge burden on police resources. Using local authorities, which have many of the same powers as the police and indeed more, can resolve problems without the need to criminalise offenders.

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