ABSTRACT
In our concluding chapter, Crime and Justice in Digital Society, we draw together the contributions throughout the book in order to invite the wider criminological community to contribute to the study of an increasingly digital society. Digital criminology is not, in this sense, a sub-discipline but an analysis that can be brought to all fields within the discipline. Technological tools and socio-technical practices are implicated in most forms of crime and justice. This can be seen most obviously in social media usage. Not only do most offenders and victims themselves have social media identities, these platforms are ubiquitous in informing the public, policy-makers and politicians about the nature of crime and how justice may be pursued. A criminology that does not address this looks increasingly incomplete. Digital social systems will also inform how crime and justice processes continue to scale, whether this be in intensity, with technology applied in ever more ways to growing urban centres, or spatially, as knowledge and practices become more globally connected. To extend such analyses, we argue that criminology must engage more thoroughly with interdisciplinary perspectives from across science and technology, politics, cultural studies, as well as media and communications, in seeking to understand and respond to crime, justice and injustice in digital society.
