Technology, Crime and Justice: The Question Concerning Technomia

Cover
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Title Page......Page 3
Copyright Page
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Table of Contents
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List of illustrations......Page 9
Introduction: the question concerning technomia......Page 10
Technology as “crime”: fire-theft, and subverting thedivine order......Page 16
Conceptualising and classifying technology......Page 18
Skill, making and revealing: the classical account of technology......Page 21
Transforming technology: industrialisation, progress and doubt......Page 22
Contemporary views of technology (I): Heidegger and phenomenological conceptions......Page 26
Contemporary views of technology (II): networks,posthumanity and control......Page 27
The technological norm: engineering, efficiency and disaster......Page 29
Technological extension......Page 30
Technology as enablement: extension and range......Page 32
Technology, crime and justice (I): crime, regulation and technological control......Page 34
Technology, crime and justice (II): technomia......Page 36
Technomia and justice......Page 37
Pre-industrial technological crime: patterns and portents......Page 40
Pre-industrial “hi-tech” crime?......Page 45
Regulating technology in the pre-industrial era......Page 48
Pre-industrial technology control and regulation by technology......Page 52
Control and early ICTs......Page 53
Premodern bio-control: disciplining the body......Page 54
Industrialisation, Luddism and the new technomia......Page 56
Urbanisation, crime and control: the new spaces of crime......Page 58
Hi-tech crime and control in the nineteenth century......Page 60
A technomia for the industrial age......Page 65
Communication & information: putting the IT in ICT......Page 66
ICT-enabled crime: some initial assumptions......Page 67
Digital crimes against the person: primary physical harm......Page 68
Digital crimes against the person: secondary or indirect physical harm......Page 70
Digital crimes against the person: ICTs and psychological harm......Page 72
ICTs, theft and fraud......Page 75
Theft as access to value networks: four contemporary options......Page 77
Access by “open door”: incompetence in the financial and securitysectors......Page 80
Crimes against the extended community: terrorism and anti-social behaviours online......Page 82
Modelling ICT-enabled crime: “cybercrime”?......Page 85
Hyperspatialisation, hypercrime and other models......Page 89
Trends in ICT-enabled crime: organisation, automation and agents......Page 90
Towards modern ICTs: the emergence of surveillance and instant response......Page 93
Communication and coordination......Page 96
Listening, watching, sensing and tracking......Page 99
Storing and processing knowledge: the database state?......Page 105
Communications and knowledge: evidence, pattern and interpretation......Page 109
Dispensing justice......Page 111
Beyond surveillance?: ICTs, justice and the order of invisibility......Page 114
The emergence of  “micro-crime” in modernity......Page 119
Industrialised war (I): chemistry, biology and physics on the battlefield......Page 123
Industrialised war (II): the Second World War – the new laboratory of micro-crime......Page 125
The post war period, emerging criminalities and problems of control......Page 127
Analysing contemporary micro-crime......Page 128
Research and development (R&D)......Page 131
Risk, CBNTs and the production process......Page 132
Outputs: the problem of toxicity......Page 135
CBNTs and individual offenders: mad gassers, poisoners and dirty bombs......Page 136
CBNTs and collective offenders: big (bad) pharma......Page 140
Engineering the very small: biotechnology, nanotechnology and new horizons in micro-crime......Page 142
The body as a control device......Page 146
Bio-chemical justice?: The emergence of forensic science......Page 147
Contemporary forensic science and its problems......Page 148
Fingerprinting and the question of infallibility......Page 153
Extending fingerprinting into social control......Page 155
The body as a control device: biometrics......Page 157
Micro-authentication: DNA profiling......Page 158
DNA profiling: problems of fallibility?......Page 161
The body as a control device: reading intention......Page 163
Reading the brain......Page 166
Futures: matter control and the bio-chemical citizen......Page 168
7 Of hammers, hairdryers and handguns: mid- and multi-range technologies......Page 173
Mid- and multi-range technologies......Page 174
Crimes with mid-range technologies......Page 176
Everyday mid-range crimes and their control......Page 177
Violence and personal gain......Page 178
Mid-range technologies and other criminal harms......Page 180
Mid-range technologies: risk, safety and liability......Page 182
Performance enhancement: criminalities and rule breaking......Page 185
Multi-range technologies: the weapon......Page 191
Gun and knife crime and control......Page 192
Hi-tech weaponry and criminality......Page 195
“Less-than-lethal” weapons technology and control......Page 197
Conclusion......Page 198
8 Technology, science and justice......Page 200
Technocentrism in criminal justice: questions and justifications......Page 201
Law, science and technology: science as the gold standard......Page 203
Techno-legal dystopianism......Page 204
Technological descriptivism and evaluating the alternatives......Page 206
Science, technology and justice: bad science?......Page 207
The science–technology connection......Page 210
Law, technology and science......Page 212
Criminal justice, law and technomia......Page 216
Technological regulation......Page 217
Regulation by technology......Page 219
Technological offending......Page 224
Technological control......Page 227
Justice, technological justice and technomia......Page 229
Notes......Page 233
Bibliography......Page 236
Index......Page 287