Contesting Crime Science

Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-29958-0
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 571 g

Reihe: University of California Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oleson, James C.

Kramer, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Rechtsmedizin, Forensik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments  Introduction
1. A Brief Sketch of Crime Science and Its Limits

2. Biological Crime Science  Identification and Biosocial Criminology

3. Actuarial Science  Crime Control as a Risky Business

4. Security Science  Cartographies of Crime, States of Exception,  and the Twilight of Liberty

5. Environmental Crime Science  Missing the Forest for the Acronyms  Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.