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 conceptualizations 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.
By:
Ronald Kramer,
James C. Oleson
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520299597
ISBN 10: 0520299590
Pages: 275
Publication Date: 04 January 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.