By Katja Franko Aas
ISBN-10: 1904385389
ISBN-13: 9781904385387
How does the truth that we are living in info societies ponder the character of penal discourse and perform? utilizing media and communique reviews to sentencing and penal tradition, Kate Franko Aas deals a lucid and leading edge account of ways punishment is adjusting to a brand new cultural weather marked via growing to be calls for for info processing, transparency and responsibility.
This major ebook explores a couple of contemporary penal advancements, corresponding to danger evaluate tools, sentencing instructions and automatic sentencing details platforms, and argues that they're tools of justice with so-called Macintosh features, supplying pre-programmed solutions and recommendations.
Franko Aas touches upon problems with decision-making at-a-distance, the workout of discretion, databases, disembodiment and the altering nature of subjectivity. She explores details know-how as a cultural setting with profound implications for the character of penal wisdom, governance and id structure.
Sentencing within the Age of Information is vital analyzing for students and scholars drawn to sentencing, penal tradition, criminology, sociology of legislation and media and conversation studies.
Joint winner of the 2006 Hart/Socio-Legal reviews organization booklet Prize.