Members of Shoplifter Online Group in VK.Com SNS: Forms of Participation and "Friendship" Networks

Student: Sverdlo Anna

Supervisor: Yuri Rykov

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Sociology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This work is an analysis of shoplifter’s Internet community on the social networking site VK.com. The analysis is based on a survey of users who once were participating in the community, and their answers are used to conduct regression models in order to reveal the impact of community participation on participants’ possible shoplifting activity, their perception of shoplifting and other determinants of influence.

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