The Pre-Crime Society

“A wide-ranging, up-to-date and dynamic exploration of surveillance, power and social control in contemporary society. Essential reading for those interested in technology’s role in the responses to crime.” Majid Yar, Lancaster University

"This impressive collection of original essays is an essential critical guide to the transformations of crime control shaped by surveillance, data-analytics and the diverse technological innovations of the pre-crime society." Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford

Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Brian G. Sellers is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Eastern Michigan University.

Foreword - Ian Warren

Introduction: The Ultramodern Age of Criminology, Control Societies, and 'Dividual' Justice Policy - Bruce Arrigo, Brian Sellers and Faith Butta

Part 1: Theories, Theorists and Theoretical Perspectives

1. The 'Risk' Society Thesis and the Culture(s) of Crime Control - Bruce Arrigo and Brian Sellers

2. The Security Society: On Power, Surveillance, and Punishments - Marc Schuilenburg

3. Pre-Crime and 'Control Society’: Mass Preventive Justice and the Jurisprudence of Safety - Pat O’Malley and Gavin Smith

4. The Negation of Innocence: Terrorism and the State of Exception - David Polizzi

Part 2: 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, Lisa Petot and Brett Breton

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 3: Dataveillance, Governance and Policing Control Societies

9. Cameras and Police Dataveillance: A New Era in Policing - Janne Gaub and Marthinus 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 Deukmedjian

Part 4: Systems of Surveillance, Discipline and the New Penology

13. Supermax Prison Isolation in Pre-Crime Society - Terry Kupers

14. Mass Monitoring: The Role of Big Data in Tracking Individuals Convicted of Sex Crimes - Kristen 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 5: Globalizing Surveillance, Human Rights and (In)Security

17. Surveilling the Civil Death of the Criminal Class - Natalie Deckard

18. Big Data, Cyber Security and Liberty - Jin Ree Lee and Thomas Holt

19. Drone Justice: Kill, Surveil, Govern - Birgit Schippers

20. Global Surveillance: The Emerging Role of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology - Brian Sellers

Afterword: 'Pre-Crime' Technologies and the Myth of Race Neutrality - Pamela Ugwudike