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Digitize and punish : racial criminalization in the digital age
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"Brian Jefferson explores the history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral govern...
"Brian Jefferson explores the history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral governance over the past forty years."--
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- Creator
- Brian Jefferson
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
- ©2020
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 1452963444, 1452963436, 1517909236, 9781517909222, 9781452963440, 9781452963433, 1517909228, 9781517909239
- OCLC
- on1137736450, on1122920028
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: NextGen nightmare -- Criminalization and computation -- Computerizing the carceral state -- A fully automated police apparatus -- Punishment in the network form -- How to program a carceral city -- Conclusion: Viral abolition
Subjects
- Information storage and retrieval systems -- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Computer network resources -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
- Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States.
- Data mining in law enforcement -- United States.
- Social control -- United States.