Digitize And Punish Racial Criminalization In The Digital Age Brian Jefferson by Brian Jefferson 9781452963440, 1452963444 instant download after payment.

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
years—with 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 nation’s 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 technology—resulting in the development
of the criminal justice system’s latest tool, crime data centers—Digitize and Punish makes clear the extent to which digital technologies have transformed and intensified the nature of carceral power.