tailieunhanh - Interim guidelines on prosecuting cases involving communications sent via social media

I recognize that my biases frame the work in this thesis, particularly the perspective that i use to consider social interaction and regulation. As an academic, my notions of social interaction are entirely grounded in a Western, and primarily American perspective. As a researcher and system designer, i draw from a diverse set of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, cultural studies, queer theory, and computer graphics. While i am partially versed in all of these fields, i am by no means an expert in any of them. Yet, i come to this research as a technologist who. | Interim guidelines on prosecuting cases involving communications sent via social media Issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions 19 December 2012 Interim guidelines on prosecuting cases involving communications sent via social media Issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions on 19 December 2012 Introduction 1. These guidelines set out the approach that prosecutors should take when making decisions in relation to cases where it is alleged that criminal offences have been committed by the sending of a communication via social media. The guidelines are designed to give clear advice to prosecutors who have been asked either for a charging decision or for early advice to the police as well as in reviewing those cases which have been charged by the police. Adherence to these guidelines will ensure that there is a consistency of approach across the CPS. 2. The guidelines cover the offences that are likely to be most commonly committed by the sending of communications via social media. These guidelines equally apply to the resending or retweeting of communications and whenever they refer to the sending of a communication the guidelines should also be read as applying to the resending of a communication. However for the reasons set out below the context in which any communication is sent will be highly material. 3. These guidelines are primarily concerned with offences that may be committed by reason of the nature or content of a communication sent via social media. Where social media is simply used to facilitate some other substantive offence prosecutors should proceed under the substantive offence in question. 1 4. These guidelines are interim guidelines and they have immediate effect. At the end of the public consultation period they will be reviewed in light of the responses received. Thereafter final guidelines will be published. General Principles 5. Prosecutors may only start a prosecution if a case satisfies the test set out in the Code for Crown Prosecutors.