Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology
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Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology

Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology

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Ronald Kramer (Author) James C. Oleson (Author)  

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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. 10 b-w illustrations
Ronald Kramer is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Auckland. His previous books include The Rise of Legal Graffiti Writing in New York and Beyond and Culture, Crime and Punishment. James C. Oleson is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Auckland. His previous books include Criminal Genius: A Portrait of High-IQ Offenders and Fifty Years of Causes of Delinquency: The Criminology of Travis Hirschi.
  • Contributor: Ronald Kramer
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • ISBN13: 9780520299580
  • Number of Pages: 275
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x23mm
  • Packaged Weight: 499
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Release Date: 2022-04-05
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Ronald Kramer is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Auckland. His previous books include The Rise of Legal Graffiti Writing in New York and Beyond and Culture, Crime and Punishment. James C. Oleson is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Auckland. His previous books include Criminal Genius: A Portrait of High-IQ Offenders and Fifty Years of Causes of Delinquency: The Criminology of Travis Hirschi.

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