Contesting Crime Science

Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology

Ronald Kramer author James C Oleson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:5th Apr '22

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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.

ISBN: 9780520299580

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm

Weight: 499g

275 pages