Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice

"under the guise of technological progress and scientific rationality, criminal justice institutions are undergoing a quiet revolution. the shift toward predictive policing and preventive security, along with the technological systems designed to enable such practices, alters the very nature of criminal justice. this incisive book tracks these developments, particularly within the canadian context, and highlights the troubling implications of these changes."

-Torin Monahan, author of Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity and Professor, Department of Communication, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"this timely, concise volume superbly illuminates key trends in security and risk technologies in realms ranging from policing and border control to mediascapes and punishment. it is filled with well-researched and original empirical observations and theoretical developments across a sublime mix of chapters by highly distinguished scholars who were central to the debates about security and risk over the past two decades, as well as insightful work by young turks. this collection provides a much-needed, cutting-edge examination of ever-changing technologies that will be of interest to established scholars and students alike."

-Randy K. Lippert, Professor of Criminology, University of Windsor

Stacey Hannem is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Carrie B. Sanders is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is an interpretive theorist and qualitative researcher with an interest in studying policing, technology, police cultures, and surveillance. Her research has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and has been published in high impact journals, such as British Journal of Criminology, Policing and Society, and Gender and Society. Christopher J. Schneider is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandon University.

acknowledgements

foreword: the unarticulated political appeals of security-related risk technologies

Kevin D. Haggerty

introduction

Stacey Hannem, Aaron Doyle, Christopher J. Schneider, and Carrie B. Sanders

Section I: Big Data and Crime Risks

chapter 1: technology and resistance in mass preventative justice

Pat O'Malley

chapter 2: can "big data" analytics predict policing practice?

Janet Chan and Lyria Bennett Moses

Section II: The Limits and Implications of Criminal Justice Risk Technologies in Practice

chapter 3: the ion mobility spectrometry device and risk management in canadian federal correctional institutions

Stacey Hannem

chapter 4: nodal governance and technologies of control: one approach to risk mitigation in ontario

Carrie B. Sanders, Debra Langan, Katy Cain, and Taylor Knipe

chapter 5: enrolling brain imaging: how psychopathy becomes a "neuro" fact

Martin Dufresne, Dominique Robert and Silvian Roy

Section III: Changing Risk Practices in Criminal Justice Institutions

chapter 6: policing and media: social media as risk media

Christopher J. Schneider

chapter 7: risk aversion and the remand population explosion in ontario

Aaron Doyle and Laura McKendy

chapter 8: smart borders? customs, risk targeting, and internal politics in a border agency

Karine Ct-Boucher

conclusion

Carrie B. Sanders, Stacey Hannem and Christopher J. Schneider

glossary

contributor biographies

index