{"product_id":"digitize-and-punish-racial-criminalization-in-the-digital-age-9781517909239","title":"Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that law enforcement agencies have access to more than 100 million names stored in criminal history databases. In some cities, 80 percent of the black male population is registered in these databases. \u003ci\u003eDigitize and Punish\u003c\/i\u003e explores the long history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral governance over the past forty years—with devastating impact on poor communities of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a comprehensive study of the use of digital technology in American criminal justice, Brian Jefferson shows how the technology has expanded the wars on crime and drugs, enabling our current state of mass incarceration and further entrenching the nation’s racialized policing and punishment. After examining how the criminal justice system conceptualized the benefits of computers to surveil criminalized populations, Jefferson focuses on New York City and Chicago to provide a grounded account of the deployment of digital computing in urban police departments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy highlighting the intersection of policing and punishment with big data and web technology—resulting in the development of the criminal justice system’s latest tool, crime data centers—\u003ci\u003eDigitize and Punish\u003c\/i\u003e makes clear the extent to which digital technologies have transformed and intensified the nature of carceral power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDigitize and Punish\u003c\/i\u003e is pathbreaking. It is an example of what interdisciplinary training and spatial thinking should be. Brian Jefferson’s powerful analysis is laid out with surgical detail, illuminating the profound crisis ‘digital prisons’ have for all of us. It also accomplishes a rare scholarly feat: it’s written with crisp and, at times, witty prose. Read. This. Book.\"—Rashad Shabazz, author of \u003ci\u003eSpatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDigitize and Punish\u003c\/i\u003e is both a meticulous history of ‘policing and punishing machines’ in New York City and Chicago and a moving call to abolish them everywhere and forever. Resisting the twin drumbeat narratives of disruption and placelessness, Brian Jefferson skillfully traces how the digital carceral state is rooted in and sustained by racial capitalism, with harrowing consequences for poor communities of color.\"—Virginia Eubanks, author of \u003ci\u003eAutomating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A haunting discourse.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book makes a highly relevant contribution to contemporary criminal justice literature.\"—\u003ci\u003eEthnic and Racial Studies \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A sharp and specific look at how policing molded our digital and physical worlds.\"—\u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brian Jefferson’s \u003ci\u003eDigitize and Punish\u003c\/i\u003e lays out its argument with clarity and purposeful precision, and is remarkably timely in light of national conversations about policing.\"—\u003ci\u003eLateral Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Digitize and Punish should be required reading for anyone interested in GIScience, big data, and digital geographies, let alone those in the discipline calling out traditions of exploitation and “discovery” at the heart of our geographical endeavors.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Canadian Geographer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The overwhelming value of this book is its meticulous historical research and rich description spanning primarily from the 1960s to 2020 that ultimately provides an excellent foundation for researchers analyzing developments in the area of digitized discrimination of negatively racialized populations within the United States criminal justice system in 2021 and onward.\"—\u003ci\u003eCriminal Law and Criminal Justice Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: NextGen Nightmare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Criminalization and Computation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Computerizing the Carceral State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. A Fully Automated Police Apparatus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Punishment in the Network Form\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. How to Program a Carceral City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Viral Abolition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409712357719,"sku":"9781517909239","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517909239.jpg?v=1730507765","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/digitize-and-punish-racial-criminalization-in-the-digital-age-9781517909239","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}