From Rob Werth:
For the 2017 LSA meetings in Mexico
City, we (Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Ben Fleury-Steiner, Paula Maurutto, and Robert
Werth) are putting together a series of (2-3) panels for the thematic
session “Punishment, society and technology: Exploring big data, risk and emerging
techniques of crime control.”
We are looking for papers that engage with ongoing debates from a variety of
disciplines, including criminology, sociolegal studies, anthropology, law,
science and technology studies, and other interdisciplinary fields. We
encourage both theoretically engaged submissions and empirically-based work. The
panels will be co-sponsored by the Ethnography, Law & Society and Punishment & Society collaborative
research networks. The papers included in these panels may be included in a
special issue of a journal or edited collection. If you believe your
current project would make a good fit, please send us a title and short
abstract (approx. 1 page) by October 1st
via email to: Robert Werth at: rwerth@rice.edu
. Below is an outline of the thematic
statement for this series of panels, and feel free to email questions to any one
of us at: hannah.moffat@utoronto.ca, p.maurutto@utoronto.ca,
bfs@udel.edu, or rwerth@rice.edu.
Punishment, society and technology: Exploring big data, risk and emerging
techniques of crime control
Desires to leverage technology and data
in the governance of crime and security are increasingly pervasive. “Big data”
analytics are contributing to the development of new understandings of risk, surveillance
and crime control as well as producing new technologies which are being used by
police, courts, prisons, and probation/parole agencies, as well as numerous
non-state actors (ranging from halfway houses to credit card fraud
departments). The sheer volume of data and advances in technological
adaptations is extraordinary, and the ways in which these impact regimes of
control remains opaque. Indeed, social scientists have not sufficiently explored,
documented and theorized the effects of big data analytics and related
technologies on institutions, communities and individuals. This series of
panels will explore big data analytics and emergent/shifting technologies –
examining their dispersal, operation and interaction with existing techniques, logics,
and means for governing crime and security. We anticipate that papers will
address some of the following questions: How are emergent big data analytics
and rationalities intersecting with and impacting risk, surveillance, policing,
punishment, crime prevention, law? Do new techniques, instruments and
mechanisms reconfigure public-private partnerships, and are they blurring the
boundaries between the two? How do these technologies and analytics affect existing
race, class, gender, and other inequalities historically endemic to systems of
justice? How do ‘practitioners’ understand, embrace, alter or subvert
such technologies? How do these
technologies constitute the rights of individuals in conflict with the law? How do activist and advocacy groups perceive,
contest, and use big data technologies?
Due date: October 1st
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