Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology
Author:   Ronald Kramer ,  James C. Oleson
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520299597


Pages:   275
Publication Date:   04 January 2022
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 conceptualizations 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.

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Author:   Ronald Kramer ,  James C. Oleson
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780520299597


ISBN 10:   0520299590
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   04 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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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