ABSTRACT
Technology has become increasingly important to both the function and our understanding of the justice process. Many forms of criminal behaviour are highly dependent upon technology, and crime control has become a predominantly technologically driven process – one where ‘traditional’ technological aids such as fingerprinting or blood sample analysis are supplemented by a dizzying array of tools and techniques including surveillance devices and DNA profiling.
This book offers the first comprehensive and holistic overview of global research on technology, crime and justice. It is divided into five parts, each corresponding with the key stages of the offending and justice process:
- Part I addresses the current conceptual understanding of technology within academia and the criminal justice system;
- Part II gives a comprehensive overview of the current relations between technology and criminal behaviour;
- Part III explores the current technologies within crime control and the ways in which technology underpins contemporary formal and informal social control;
- Part IV sets out some of the fundamental impacts technology is now having upon the judicial process;
- Part V reveals the emerging technologies for crime, control and justice and considers the extent to which new technology can be effectively regulated.
This landmark collection will be essential reading for academics, students and theorists within criminology, sociology, law, engineering and technology, and computer science, as well as practitioners and professionals working within and around the criminal justice system.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|46 pages
Technology, crime and justice
part 2|290 pages
Technology, crime and harm
part 3|132 pages
Information communication technologies (ICTs) and digital crime
chapter 9|17 pages
The theft of ideas as a cybercrime
part 4|66 pages
Chemical and biological technologies and crime
part 5|22 pages
Keynote discussion
part 6|90 pages
Wider varieties of technology crime
part 7|26 pages
Keynote discussion
part 8|152 pages
Technology and control
chapter 20|22 pages
Crime, situational prevention and technology
part 9|24 pages
Keynote discussion
chapter 28|22 pages
The uncertainty principle
part 10|105 pages
Technology and the process of justice
chapter 32|18 pages
The technology of confinement and quasi-therapeutic control
part 11|13 pages
Keynote discussion
part 12|75 pages
Emerging technologies of crime and justice
part 13|11 pages
Keynote discussion