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Technology, Crime and Justice - The Question Concerning Technomia (Paperback)
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Technology, Crime and Justice - The Question Concerning Technomia (Paperback)
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As technology comes to characterize our world in ever more
comprehensive ways there are increasing questions about how the
'rights' and 'wrongs' of technological use can be adequately
categorized. To date, the scope of such questions have been limited
- focused upon specific technologies such as the internet, or
bio-technology with little sense of any social or historical
continuities in the way technology in general has been regulated.
In this book, for the first time, the 'question of technology' and
its relation to criminal justice is approached as a whole.
Technology, Crime and Justice analyzes a range of technologies,
(including information, communications, nuclear, biological,
transport and weapons technologies, amongst many others) in order
to pose three interrelated questions about their affects upon
criminal justice and criminal opportunity: to what extent can they
really be said to provide new criminal opportunity or to enhance
existing ones? what are the key characteristics of the ways in
which such technologies have been regulated? how does technology
itself serve as a regulatory force - both in crime control and
social control more widely? Technology, Crime and Justice considers
the implications of contemporary technology for the practice of
criminal justice and relates them to key historical precedents in
the way technology has been interpreted and controlled. It outlines
a new 'social' way of thinking about technology - in terms of its
affects upon our bodies and what they can do, most obviously the
ways in which social life and our ability to causally interact with
the world is 'extended' in various ways. It poses the question -
could anything like a 'Technomia' of technology be identified - a
recognizable set of principles and sanctions which govern the way
that it is produced and used, principles also consistent with our
sense of justice? This book provides a key resource for students
and scholars of both criminology and technology studies.
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