Digital punishment : privacy, stigma, and the harms of data-driven criminal justice /
"Data-driven criminal justice operations creates millions of criminal records each year in the United States. Documenting everything from a police stop to a prison sentence, these records take on a digital life of their own as they are collected and posted by police, courts, and prisons, and th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2020
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| Summary: | "Data-driven criminal justice operations creates millions of criminal records each year in the United States. Documenting everything from a police stop to a prison sentence, these records take on a digital life of their own as they are collected and posted by police, courts, and prisons, and then re-posted on social media, online news and mugshot galleries, and bought and sold by data brokers as an increasingly valuable data commodity. The result is "digital punishment," where mere suspicion or a brush with the law can have lasting consequences. This analysis describes the transformation of criminal records into millions of data points, the commodification of this data into a valuable digital resource, and the impact of this shift on people, society, and public policy. The consequences of digital punishment, as described in hundreds of interviews detailed in this book, lead people to purposefully opt out of society as they cope with privacy and due process violations"-- |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-230) and index |
| ISBN: | 9780190872007 0190872004 |