Contesting Crime Science

Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology

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Av Ronald Kramer, James C. Oleson

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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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Utgivningsdatum2022-01-04
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor275
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520299580

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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.

ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Brief Sketch of Crime Science and Its Limits2. Biological Crime ScienceIdentification and Biosocial Criminology 3. Actuarial ScienceCrime Control as a Risky Business 4. Security ScienceCartographies of Crime, States of Exception,and the Twilight of Liberty 5. Environmental Crime ScienceMissing the Forest for the Acronyms Conclusion NotesBibliographyIndex