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Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age

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By (author): Brian Jefferson

Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color

 

The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that law enforcement agencies have access to more than 100 million names stored in criminal history databases. In some cities, 80 percent of the black male population is registered in these databases. Digitize and Punish explores the long 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 yearswith devastating impact on poor communities of color.

Providing a comprehensive study of the use of digital technology in American criminal justice, Brian Jefferson shows how the technology has expanded the wars on crime and drugs, enabling our current state of mass incarceration and further entrenching the nations racialized policing and punishment. After examining how the criminal justice system conceptualized the benefits of computers to surveil criminalized populations, Jefferson focuses on New York City and Chicago to provide a grounded account of the deployment of digital computing in urban police departments.

By highlighting the intersection of policing and punishment with big data and web technologyresulting in the development of the criminal justice systems latest tool, crime data centersDigitize and Punish makes clear the extent to which digital technologies have transformed and intensified the nature of carceral power.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Apr 2020
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781517909222

About Brian Jefferson

Brian Jefferson is associate professor of geography and geographic information science at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign. 

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