From 'What the F#@% is a Facebook?' to 'Who Doesn't Use Facebook?': The role of criminal lifestyles in the adoption and use of the Internet

Social Science Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1411-1421

  Moule, Richard K ^a   Pyrooz, David C ^b   Decker, Scott H ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Digital inequality; Internet; Marginalization; Offenders; Online behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880660178     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.06.008     Document Type: Article

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