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Digitize and punish : racial criminalization in the digital age

Author: Brian Jordan Jefferson
Publisher: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2020] ©2020
Edition/Format:   Print book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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 governance over the past forty years. He shows how digital technology has expanded the wars on crime and drugs, enabling our current state of mass incarceration and further entrenching the nation's racialized policing and  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Jefferson, Brian Jordan, 1981-
Digitize and punish.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
(DLC) 2019033195
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Brian Jordan Jefferson
ISBN: 9781517909222 1517909228 9781517909239 1517909236
OCLC Number: 1122920028
Description: xiii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents: NextGen nightmare --
Criminalization and computation --
Dreams of digital carceral power --
A fully automated police apparatus --
Punishment in the network form --
How to program a carceral city --
Viral abolition.
Responsibility: Brian Jefferson.

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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  Read more...

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"Digitize and Punish is pathbreaking. It is an example of what interdisciplinary training and spatial thinking should be. Brian Jefferson's powerful analysis is laid out with surgical detail, Read more...

 
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