Contesting Crime Science : Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology
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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:
SociologyCrime & criminologyImpact 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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