Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology by Kramer, Ronald

Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520299597)

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Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology by Kramer, Ronald

Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology

$29.95
Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology by Kramer, Ronald

Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Ronald Kramer, James C. Oleson
ISBN-10: 0520299590
ISBN-13: 9780520299597
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2022
Pages: 275
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
By Ronald Kramer
By Ronald Kramer
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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.

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