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Contesting Crime Science
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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 deco...
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04 January 2022

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.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 275
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
04 January 2022
ISBN: 9780520971264
Format: eBook
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
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