Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet

<p><em>Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet</em> is an examination of the development and impact of digital frontier technologies (DFTs) such as Artificial Intelligence the Internet of things autonomous mobile robots and blockchain on offending crime control the criminal justice system and the discipline of criminology. It poses criminological legal ethical and policy questions linked to such development and anticipates the impact of DFTs on crime and offending. It forestalls their wide-ranging consequences including the proliferation of new types of vulnerability policing and other mechanisms of social control and the threat of pervasive and intrusive surveillance.</p><p>Two key concerns lie at the heart of this volume. First the book investigates the origins and development of emerging DFTs and their interactions with criminal behaviour crime prevention victimisation and crime control. It also investigates the future advances and likely impact of such processes on a range of social actors: citizens non-citizens offenders victims of crime judiciary and law enforcement media NGOs. This book does not adopt technological determinism that suggests technology alone drives social development. Yet while it is impossible to know where the emerging technologies are taking us there is no doubt that DFTs will shape the way we engage with and experience criminal behaviour in the twenty-first century. As such this book starts the conversation about a range of essential topics that this expansion brings to social sciences and begins to decipher challenges we will be facing in the future.</p><p>An accessible and compelling read this book will appeal to those engaged with criminology sociology politics policymaking and all those interested in the impact of DFTs on the criminal justice system.</p>