ABSTRACT
In Chapter 3, A Global Context: Networks, Corporations and States, we explore the technosocial relations of risk, security, surveillance and the state in digital society. More particularly, the chapter focuses on the shifting structures of power, governance and regulation between the domain of nation states and those of global corporations. This discussion foregrounds the examination of crime, deviance, justice and injustice in the remaining chapters. In this chapter, we highlight the interconnection between local and global domains, arguing that technologically mediated interactions occur within and between these spheres and, as a consequence, are subject to a range of often competing regulatory systems. We suggest that key conceptual considerations for crime control and security in digital criminology are a proportional understanding of risk; a meaningful understanding of norms in their embedded context; and an approach to security that connects to the lived experiences of those who use technology.
