{"product_id":"digitize-and-punish-brian-jefferson-9781517909222","title":"Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that law enforcement agencies have access to more than 100 million names stored in criminal history databases. In some cities, 80 percent of the black male population is registered in these databases. \u003ci\u003eDigitize and Punish\u003c\/i\u003e explores the long history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral governance over the past forty years--with devastating impact on poor communities of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a comprehensive study of the use of digital technology in American criminal justice, Brian Jefferson shows how the technology has expanded the wars on crime and drugs, enabling our current state of mass incarceration and further entrenching the nation's racialized policing and punishment. After examining how the criminal justice system conceptualized the benefits of computers to surveil criminalized populations, Jefferson focuses on New York City and Chicago to provide a grounded account of the deployment of digital computing in urban police departments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy highlighting the intersection of policing and punishment with big data and web technology--resulting in the development of the criminal justice system's latest tool, crime data centers--\u003ci\u003eDigitize and Punish\u003c\/i\u003e makes clear the extent to which digital technologies have transformed and intensified the nature of carceral power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Jefferson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517909228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517909222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.00d","brand":"Brian Jefferson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088508563711,"sku":"9781517909222","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ee001432-c56a-4360-9369-8897926adc76.jpg?v=1769105157","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/digitize-and-punish-brian-jefferson-9781517909222","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}