The Pre-Crime Society : Crime, Culture and Control in the Ultramodern Age

We live in a pre-crime society. Within this society, information technology strategies and techniques such as predictive policing, actuarial justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve hyper-securitization. However, such securitization comes at a cost. In this new people-making society, the criminalisation of everyday life is guaranteed, justice functions as an algorithmic industry and punishment is administered through dataveillance regimes. Exploring relevant theories, developing technologies and institutional practices, this pioneering book explains how the pre-crime society operates in the ‘ultramodern’ age, reviews this society’s cultural effects and proposes new directions in crime control policy. Edited by critical and cultural criminologists, Bruce A. Arrigo and Brian G. Sellers, the volume brings together an international cast of interdisciplinary scholars, working at the intersections of data science, digital culture, and justice studies. This is the first collection to comprehensively consider the relevance and impact of the pre-crime society thesis, across the systems of state, national, and global surveillance and securitization. Front Cover -- The Pre-crime Society: Crime, Culture And Control In The Ultramodern Age -- Copyright Information -- Dedication -- Table Of Contents -- Notes On Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Ultramodern Age Of Criminology, Control Societies And 'dividual' Justice Policy -- Part I Theories, Theorists And Theoretical Perspectives -- 1 The 'risk' Society Thesis And The Culture(s) Of Crime Control -- Introduction -- Section I: The Problem Of Reification And The Culture(s) Of Control -- Marx And Reification -- The Situationists And Reification -- The Hyper-realists And Reification Section Ii: On The Interdependent Forces Of Reification And Their Interrelated Forms Of Risk Management -- The Symbolic Forces Of Risk Currency: On The Mind's Jurisprudence -- The Linguistic Forces Of Risk Currency: On Subjectivity's Politics -- The Material Forces Of Risk Currency: On Power's Microphysics -- The Cultural Forces Of Risk Currency: On Risk's Governance -- Section Iii: The Ultramodern Era Of Pre-crime, Post-criminology, And Of Risk Management -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Security Society: On Power, Surveillance And Punishments -- Introduction -- Sovereign Power Disciplinary Power -- Control Power -- Interventions: From Exclusion To Inclusion -- Sovereign Power -- Disciplinary Power -- Control Power -- Psychopower -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Pre-crime And The 'control Society': Mass Preventive Justice And The Jurisprudence Of Safety -- Risk And Dangerousness: Pre-crimes And Preventive Crimes -- From Pre-crimes To Risk Crimes -- Control And The Emergence Of Mass Preventive Justice -- Resistance, Risk Crimes And The Domain Of Control -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 The Negation Of Innocence: Terrorism And The State Of Exception Introduction -- Who Is Killing Whom In The Digital Age?4 -- The State Of Exception -- Non-state Terrorism And The State Of Exception -- State Of Exception Or State Of Permanence? -- States Of Exception And The Negation Of Innocence -- Cinematic Shock, The Aesthetics Of Violence And Real Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part Ii Institutions, Organizations And The Surveillance Industrial Complex -- 5 Visions Of The Pre-criminal Student: Reimagining School Digital Surveillance -- Introduction -- Pre-crime Techno-realist Transactions: Digital Surveillance Technologies, Schools And Pre-crime -- The Political Economy Of Possible Futures: Neoliberal Governmentality And Pre-crime Surveillance In Schools -- Envisioning The Pre-criminal Student -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Commodification Of Suffering -- Introduction -- Cultural Assumptions And Commodification -- Suffering As Commodity -- Mental Health Surveillance -- Mental Health Deinstitutionalization And Incarceration -- Outcomes -- Conclusion -- References -- Part Iii Dataveillance, Governance And Policing Control Societies Edited By Bruce A. Arrigo And Brian G. Sellers ; With A Foreword By Ian Warren. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web. Dedications Contents Notes on Contributors Foreword • Ian Warren Introduction: The Ultramodern Age of Criminology, Control Societies and ‘Dividual’ Justice Policy • Bruce A. Arrigo, Brian G. Sellers and Faith Butta Part I: Theories, Theorists and Theoretical Perspectives 1 The ‘Risk’ Society Thesis and the Culture(s) of Crime Control • Bruce A. Arrigo and Brian G. Sellers 2 The Security Society: On Power, Surveillance and Punishments • Marc Schuilenburg 3 Pre-Crime and the ‘Control Society’: Mass Preventive Justice and the Jurisprudence of Safety • Pat O’Malley and Gavin J.D. Smith 4 The Negation of Innocence: Terrorism and the State of Exception • David Polizzi Part II: Institutions, Organizations and the Surveillance Industrial Complex 5 Visions of the Pre-Criminal Student: Reimagining School Digital Surveillance • Andrew Hope 6 Commodification of Suffering • Matthew Draper, Brett Breton and Lisa Petot 7 Surveillance, Substance Misuse and the Drug Use Industry • Aaron Pycroft 8 The Politics of Actuarial Justice and Risk Assessment • Andrew Day and Armon Tamatea Part III: Dataveillance, Governance and Policing Control Societies 9 Cameras and Police Dataveillance: A New Era in Policing • Janne E. Gaub and Marthinus C. Koen 10 Theorizing Surveillance in the Pre-Crime Society • Michael McCahill 11 Dataveillance and the Dividuated Self: The Everyday Digital Surveillance of Young People • Clare Southerton and Emmeline Taylor 12 The Bad Guys Are Everywhere; the Good Guys Are Somewhere • John E. Deukmedjian Part IV: Systems of Surveillance, Discipline and the New Penology 13 Supermax Prison Isolation in Pre-Crime Society • Terry A. Kupers 14 Mass Monitoring: The Role of Big Data in Tracking Individuals Convicted of Sex Crimes • Kristen M. Budd and Christina Mancini 15 Towards Predictivity? Immediacy and Imminence in the Electronic Monitoring of Offenders • Mike Nellis 16 The Digital Technologies of Rehabilitation and Reentry • Bianca C. Reisdorf and Julia R. DeCook Part V: Globalizing Surveillance, Human Rights and (In)Security 17 Surveilling the Civil Death of the Criminal Class • Natalie Delia Deckard 18 Big Data, Cyber Security and Liberty • Jin Ree Lee and Thomas J. Holt 19 Drone Justice: Kill, Surveil, Govern • Birgit Schippers 20 Global Surveillance: The Emerging Role of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology • Brian G. Sellers Afterword: ‘Pre-Crime’ Technologies and the Myth of Race Neutrality • Pamela Ugwudike Index We now live in a pre-crime society, in which information technology strategies and techniques such as predictive policing, actuarial justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve hyper-securitization. However, such securitization comes at a cost - the criminalization of everyday life is guaranteed, justice functions as an algorithmic industry and punishment is administered through dataveillance regimes. This pioneering book explores relevant theories, developing technologies and institutional practices and explains how the pre-crime society operates in the ‘ultramodern’ age of digital reality construction. Reviewing pre-crime's cultural and political effects, the authors propose new directions in crime control policy. We live in a pre-crime society where technological strategies and techniques are employed to achieve hyper-securitization. Exploring theories, technologies and institutional practices, this pioneering book explains how the pre-crime society operates in the ‘ultramodern’ age and proposes new directions in crime control policy.