Contesting crime science
our misplaced faith in crime prevention technology
- ISBN: 9780520299597
- Editorial: University of California Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2022
- Lugar de la edición: Oakland (CA). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 270
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.
Introduction
A brief sketch of crime science and its limits
Biological crime sciences : identification and biosocial criminology
Actuarial sciences : crime control as a risky business
Security sciences : cartographies of crime, states of exception, and the twilight of liberty
Environmental crime sciences : missing the forest for the acronyms
