Postmodern Criminology and Technocrime
Brian Gregory Sellers, Bruce A. Arrigo · 2017
This chapter aims to consider how postmodern inquiry enables us to better understand the problem of technocrime as it relates to juveniles and their so-called "risky" behavior. The digital tools and technologies that are used to process, profile, and manage potential situations of juvenile risk are important here as well. The chapter examines two sociocultural developments pivotal to establishing a postmodern theory of technocrime. From the perspective of an emergent postmodern theory of technocrime, both the evolution of surveillance studies and the historical residue of the control society indicate as much. A postmodern theory of technocrime begins by diagnosing the status of the Deleuzian control society. The chapter suggests that school-based zero tolerance policies are symptomatic of societal dis-ease. Theorizing a humanistic overcoming of such reductions and repressions in the informational age of surveillance studies is the central implication of our postmodern criminology.