Contesting Crime Science : Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology

Name: Contesting Crime Science
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520299597
Price: 4500 KES
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ISBN: 9780520299597

by James C. Oleson , Ronald Kramer

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0520299590

ISBN-13 9780520299597

Publisher University of California Press

Imprint University of California Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 4th, 2022

Print length 275 Pages

Weight 376 grams

Dimensions 15.30 x 22.90 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Sociology Crime & criminology Impact of science & technology on society

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In this eye-opening critique, Ronald Kramer and James C. Oleson interrogate the promises of crime science and target our misplaced faith in technology as the solution to criminality. This book deconstructs crime science's most prominent manifestations—biological, actuarial, security, and environmental sciences. Rather than holding the technological keys to crime's resolution, crime sciences inscribe criminality on particular bodies and constitute a primary resource for the conceptualization of crime that many societies take for granted. Crime science may strive to reduce crime, but in doing so, it reproduces power asymmetries, creates profit motives, undermines important legal concepts, instantiates questionable practices, and forces open new vistas of deviant activity.

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