Contesting Crime Science

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Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology

By Ronald Kramer and James C. Oleson

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Contesting Crime Science by Ronald Kramer and James C. Oleson critically examines the promises of crime science and challenges the belief that technology alone can solve criminality. The authors explore major facets of crime science—including biological, actuarial, security, and environmental approaches—to reveal how these techniques not only attempt to curb crime but also reinforce power imbalances, create profit motives, and impact legal principles and societal views on criminal behaviour.
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This book is ideal for students, scholars, and practitioners in criminology, sociology, and law interested in the critical evaluation of crime science and the social implications of technology in crime prevention.

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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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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520299597

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 January 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 10 b-w illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 275

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Education & Reference James C. Oleson Non-Fiction Ronald Kramer Science & Nature

About the Author

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.