James C. Oleson & Ronald Kramer 
Contesting Crime Science [EPUB ebook] 
Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology

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.

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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.