ABSTRACT
This is a book about sentencing. This is also a book about computers. It is a book about the relationship between people and computers, and how out of this relationship new stories about crime and offenders and new images of justice are being born. Furthermore, this is a book about the changing nature of our thinking and our sociality, about how our perceptions of the appropriate ways of reasoning and governing social institutions are being transformed in the technologicallymediated social world. Our notions of our own and others’ identities are mediated by a growing number of technologies and governmental strategies – also, or even more so, when it comes to the administration of justice. Today, we are required to adopt technology-friendly identity and language when communicating with a bank, when we want to order a plane ticket or enrol at a university, just as criminal justice officials are required to fill out an increasing number of forms when evaluating their clients and reporting about their own work. In almost every aspect of our daily lives and work we are encountering new communicational situations, new modes of expression, thinking and identification. This book is an attempt to gain insight into and to grasp some of the effects of the new technologies of justice and the emerging images of identity.
