Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology

by Ronald Kramer and James C. Oleson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520299582
• ISBN13: 9780520299580
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"