Precarious Futures

Crime, Technology and the Web
2024
ISBN: 978-3-030-86860-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Precarious Futures: Crime, Technology and the Web explores rapidly changing social relationships within an increasingly interconnected digital world. Challenging conventional understandings of cybercrime and questioning the continued adequacy of established criminological frameworks, it argues, inter alia, that relative deprivation, reworked as a form of post-industrial precarity, provides a powerful foundation for understanding crime and deviance in a hyper-connected, hyper-commercial neoliberal society. Drawing on empirical research, social theory, and contemporary debates on artificial intelligence, big data, surveillance, hacktivism, and digital power, the book examines how the Web has transformed opportunities for crime while reshaping the practices of governance and prediction. In doing so, Hamerton and Webber advance new theoretical models: temporal relative deprivation; the metaopticon; techniques of normalisation; and the precariousness of predictive systems, to explain the dynamics of crime and social control in an age of pervasive surveillance and artificial general intelligence. Precarious Futures advances a transdisciplinary critical digital criminology for understanding the uncertainties of the digital age. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of criminology and sociology, as well as researchers and practitioners in cyber security, computer science, artificial intelligence studies, and related fields.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamerton, Christopher

Webber, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit Computerkriminalität & Hacking
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Beyond the Contrivance of Cybercriminality, The Rise of the Web and the Emergence of Web Science as Discipline.- Chapter 2: Traditional Perspectives on Universal Social Problems: interrogating the Criminological Imagination of the Past.- Chapter 3: Relative Deprivation in the Twenty-First Century: Precarity and the Emergent Missing Links.- Chapter 4: Socio-political Perspectives: Horizon Scanning, Magic Bullets and the ‘Prediction Fallacy’.- Chapter 5: Mystification and the Dark Web: Sticky Identity and the Never Forgotten Self.- Chapter 6: No Longer Anonymous: The Politics of Hacktivism.- Chapter 7: Pandora’s Box, Osmosis or a World of Opportunity: The Reinvention of Organised, Collaborative and Democratised Crime and Deviance.- Chapter 8: Conclusions and Prospects: Does Criminology have a Precarious Future?.

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Hamerton is Programme Director in Criminology and Law at the School of Policy & Global Affairs, City St Georges, University of London, UK.

Craig Webber is Associate Professor in Criminology in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton, UK.