Communication and biotechnological revolution is changing the images of “criminal subject”. The book tackles these transformations through an analysis of new types of cybercrime and hate crime. It shows how new knowledge is entering into a contingent figure of the “criminal subject” that is increasingly understood only according to biological features. The “forgotten” phrenological studies of the cranium are substituted with more sophisticated gene and brain scanning techniques. The book applies these transformations to a postmodern subject formation process and “law and order” crime policy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 248634112
Information technology (IT) is revolutionising our daily lives and facilitates a creation of our »digital self« that is augmenting the visibility of an individual toward the others and the state. IT not only facilitates the execution of traditional forms of crime and generates entirely new forms of crime, but also strengthens law enforcement capabilities (with increased intelligence capabilities, the possibilities to couple once separated individual data etc.). This development stresses the importance of the surveillance studies discourse and generates new digital evidence dilemmas.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1267278