The Pre-Crime Society: Crime, Culture and Control in the Ultramodern Age

The Pre-Crime Society: Crime, Culture and Control in the Ultramodern Age
ISBN-10
1529205271
ISBN-13
9781529205275
Category
Social Science
Pages
534
Language
English
Published
2021-07-30
Publisher
Policy Press
Authors
Brian, Bruce, Arrigo

Description

We now live in a pre-crime society, in which information technology strategies and techniques such as predictive policing, actuarial justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve hyper-securitization. However, such securitization comes at a cost – the criminalization of everyday life is guaranteed, justice functions as an algorithmic industry and punishment is administered through dataveillance regimes. This pioneering book explores relevant theories, developing technologies and institutional practices and explains how the pre-crime society operates in the ‘ultramodern’ age of digital reality construction. Reviewing pre-crime's cultural and political effects, the authors propose new directions in crime control policy.

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