Streaming Justice - True crime and wrongful conviction in the streaming age

This book examines the relationship between true crime and wrongful conviction in the age of streaming content. True crime plays a vital role in informing, entertaining, and developing public expectations surrounding justice. During the streaming era, true crime has emerged as a profitable option for content producers, leading to a form of engaged fandom entwined in the narratives of victims and criminals. The book is a culmination of research and analysis into the role of true crime in raising public awareness of narratives of wrongful conviction. It examines the effects on audience participation in seeking justice through digital enabled opportunities like crowd-sourcing, websleuthing, and online activism.

List of contents

Chapter 1.  Introducing Streaming Justice.- Chapter 2. True Crime in the digital age: Setting the scene for wrongful conviction.- Chapter 3. Netflix, Making a Murderer and streaming justice.- Chapter 4. Online Fandom: Justice seeking, misinformation, and disinformation.- Chapter 5. Is it about the innocent? User-created content, video-sharing and the evolution of justice vlogging.- Chapter 6. The influencers of innocence: TikTokification, social media influencers, and true crime.- Chapter 7. Streaming the celebrification of the innocent.- Chapter 8. Experiences of streaming: Participating in true crime.- Chapter 9. Experiences of innocence advocates with true crime.- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Justice swimming up the stream.

Product details

• Assisted by: Greg Stratton (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.03.2026
• EAN: 9783032161482
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3216148-2
• Illustrations: Approx. 180 p.
• Series: Crime and Justice in Digital Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; True Crime, auseinandersetzen, Crime and Society, Crime and the Media, Crime and Technology, Digital Criminology, websleuthing, media and crime, wrongful conviction