Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice: Critical Perspectives - Tapa blanda

Acerca de los autores

Stacey Hannem is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Carrie B. Sanders is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is an interpretive theorist and qualitative researcher with an interest in studying policing, technology, police cultures, and surveillance. Her research has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and has been published in high impact journals, such as British Journal of Criminology, Policing and Society, and Gender and Society.

Christopher J. Schneider is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandon University.

De la contraportada

Preventive security is evolving, expanding, and intensifying in a myriad of ways throughout various spheres of criminal justice—paradoxically breeding new forms of insecurity. Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice offers a comprehensive overview and empirical critique of contemporary preventive practices and technologies for controlling risks of crime and terrorism. Across eight diverse chapters, the contributors to this unique collection explore ways in which broader organizational, political, economic, and cultural contexts influence the use of technologies, illuminating the intended and unintended consequences of the “scientification” of criminal justice work.

With a foreword by leading criminology scholar Kevin Haggerty, this volume is divided into three sections that explore the impact of big data, traditional risk practices, and the increased reliance on technology in criminal justice. The chapters offer diverse examples that are linked by themes of preventative justice, calculability of risk, the theatre and reality of technology, and the costs of justice, making this book essential reading for undergraduate and graduate courses in criminology, police studies, and sociology throughout Canada and the rest of the English-speaking world.