Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age
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Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Brian Jefferson (Author), Leon Nixon (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)
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The US 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 40 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, Digitize and Punish makes clear the extent to which digital technologies have transformed and intensified the nature of carceral power.

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  1. Listening Length
    8 hours and 6 minutes
  2. Author
    Brian Jefferson
  3. Narrator
    Leon Nixon
  4. Audible release date
    June 10, 2020
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Tantor Audio
  7. ASIN
    B088VWT7W8
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 8 hours and 6 minutes
Author Brian Jefferson
Narrator Leon Nixon
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date June 10, 2020
Publisher Tantor Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B088VWT7W8
Best Sellers Rank #418,347 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#148 in Penology (Audible Books & Originals)
#503 in Technology & Society
#996 in Racism & Discrimination Studies

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