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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marc schuilenburg”
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  • Hysteria

    Crime, Media, and Politics

    by Marc Schuilenburg ...
    According to the medical world, hysteria is a thing of the past, an outdated diagnosis that has disappeared for good. This book argues that hysteria is in fact alive and well.Hyperventilating, we rush from one incident into the next – there is hardly time for a breather. From the worldwide run on toilet paper to cope with coronavirus fears to the overheated discussions about immigration and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Securitization of Society

    Crime, Risk, and Social Order

    by Marc Schuilenburg ...
    Translated by George Hall ...
    Series Book 12 - Alternative Criminology
    Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even private citizens, have enforced some form of security, effectively changing its delivery, and overall role.In The Securitization of Society, Marc ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Algorithmic Society

    Technology, Power, and Knowledge

    Edited by Marc Schuilenburg, Rik Peeters ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
    We live in an algorithmic society. Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms have become the main mediators through which power and knowledge are enacted in our society. This book brings together three academic fields – Public Administration, Criminal Justice, and Urban Governance – into a single conceptual framework and offers a broad cultural‑political analysis, addressing critical and ethical ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Algorithmic Society

    Technology, Power, and Knowledge

    Edited by Marc Schuilenburg, Rik Peeters ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
    We live in an algorithmic society. Algorithms have become the main mediator through which power is enacted in our society. This book brings together three academic fields – Public Administration, Criminal Justice and Urban Governance – into a single conceptual framework, and offers a broad cultural-political analysis, addressing critical and ethical issues of algorithms.Governments are ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Pre-Crime Society

    Crime, Culture and Control in the Ultramodern Age

    by Pamela Ugwudike, Birgit Schippers, Thomas Holt, Jin Ree Lee, Natalie Deckard, Julia R Decook, Bianca C. Reisdorf, Mike Nellis, Kristen M. Budd, Terry Kupers, John Deukmedjian, Emmeline Taylor, Clare Southerton, Michael Mccahill, Marthinus Koen, Janne Gaub, Armon Tamatea, Brett Breton, Lisa Petot, Aaron Pycroft, David Polizzi, Gavin Smith, Pat O'Malley, Marc Schuilenburg, Faith Butta ...
    We now live in a pre-crime society, in which information technology strategies and techniques such as predictive policing, actuarial justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve hyper-securitization.However, such securitization comes at a cost – the criminalization of everyday life is guaranteed, justice functions as an algorithmic industry and punishment is administered through ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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    Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance

    by Kelly Gates ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Cultural Communication
    Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to “see” the human face—to develop automated systems for identifying faces and distinguishing them from one another—commonly known as Facial Recognition Technology. While computer scientists are developing FRT in order to design more intelligent and interactive machines, businesses and states agencies view the technology ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Understanding Social Networks

    Theories, Concepts, and Findings

    by Charles Kadushin ...
    Despite the swift spread of social network concepts and their applications and the rising use of network analysis in social science, there is no book that provides a thorough general introduction for the serious reader. Understanding Social Networks fills that gap by explaining the big ideas that underlie the social network phenomenon. Written for those interested in this fast moving area but who ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Privacy in Context

    Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life

    by Helen Nissenbaum ...
    Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial to social life —but the inappropriate, improper sharing of information.Arguing that privacy ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Trans

    When Ideology Meets Reality

    by Helen Joyce ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and a Times, Spectator and Observer Book of the Year 2021‘In the first decade of this century, it was unthinkable that a gender-critical book could even be published by a prominent publishing house, let alone become a bestseller.’ Louise Perry, New Statesman‘Thank goodness for Helen Joyce.’ Christina Patterson, Sunday Times‘Rea... ... Read more

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  • Digital Media and Society

    An Introduction

    by Adrian Athique ...
    The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century. The speed with which new forms of connectivity and communication are being incorporated into our everyday lives often gives us little time to stop and consider the social implications of those practices. Nonetheless, it is critically important that we do so, and this ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Predict and Surveil

    Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

    by Sarah Brayne ...
    The scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, healthcare, and marketing. While law enforcement's use of big data is hotly contested, very little is known about how the police actually use it in daily operations and with what consequences. In Predict and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Stupid

    The Decline of Reason and Why Public Debate Makes Us Want to Scream

    by Helen Razer, Bernard Keane ...
    Alain de Botton meets Russell Brand in this glorious rant about everything that drives you mad about the modern world.How did everything get so dumb?How did we become hostages to idiocy?What must we do to be freed from a captor whose ransom note simply reads, 'D'oh'?The deteriorating quality of our public debate and the dwindling of common sense in media, politics and culture can drive you to ... Read more

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