"Brian Jefferson explores the 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 forty years."
"Brian Jefferson explores the 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 forty years."--
Introduction: NextGen nightmare -- Criminalization and computation -- Computerizing the carceral state -- A fully automated police apparatus -- Punishment in the network form -- How to program a carceral city -- Conclusion: Viral abolition. "This project explores the long histo…
"Brian Jefferson explores the 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 forty years. He shows how digital technology has expanded the w…