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In this eye-opening critique, Ronald Kramer and James C. Olesoninterrogate the promises of crime scienceand target our misplaced faith in technology as the solution to criminality.This book deconstructs crime science's most prominent manifestationsbiological, 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, itreproduces power asymmetries, creates profit motives,undermines important legal concepts, instantiates questionable practices,and forces open new vistas of deviant activity.

Table of Contents
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

Contesting Crime Science

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 4 January 2022
      ISBN-13 9780520299597
      978-0520299597
      ISBN-10 0520299590
      Also in:
      Sociology Impact of science and technology on society

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this eye-opening critique, Ronald Kramer and James C. Olesoninterrogate the promises of crime scienceand target our misplaced faith in technology as the solution to criminality.This book deconstructs crime science's most prominent manifestationsbiological, 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, itreproduces power asymmetries, creates profit motives,undermines important legal concepts, instantiates questionable practices,and forces open new vistas of deviant activity.

      Table of Contents
      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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