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Record Nr.

UNINA9910672245203321

Titolo

Methods of criminology and criminal justice research [[electronic resource]] / edited by Mathieu Deflem and Derek M.D. Silva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley : , : Emerald Publishing Limited, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-78769-867-X

1-78769-865-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Sociology of crime, law and deviance, , 1521-6136 ; ; volume 24

Disciplina

364

Soggetti

Criminology - Methodology

Criminal justice, Administration of

Crime - Sociological aspects

Sociology - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The eleven chapters in this volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance discuss a variety of issues of methodological significance in research in the fields of criminology and criminal justice studies. As scholarly work on various aspects of crime, deviance, criminal justice, and social control has progressed tremendously in recent decades, both in terms of scope as well as with respect to theoretical approaches, the employed methods of investigation have also broadened and advanced to be as sophisticated as those used in any other area of contemporary social-science inquiry. The authors in this volume demonstrate the methodological maturity and diversity of current empirical research in criminology and criminal justice in a number of areas, such as general trends of crime, criminal networks, violence against women, sex work, elder financial exploitation, school safety, immigrant detention, extremism on the internet, and human trafficking. Presenting a state-of-the-art overview of criminological and criminal justice methodologies today, this book is of interest to a wide range of scholars and students in the fields of criminology,



sociology, justice policy, and criminal justice.--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790927003321

Autore

Hookway Branden

Titolo

Interface / / Branden Hookway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-262-32263-3

0-262-32262-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Disciplina

601

Soggetti

Technology - Philosophy

Interfaces (Physical sciences)

Human-machine systems - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 THE SUBJECT OF THE INTERFACE; 2 THE FORMING OF THE INTERFACE; 3 THE AUGMENTATION OF THE INTERFACE; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes, is at once ubiquitous and hidden from view. It is both the bottleneck through which our relationship to technology must pass and a productive encounter embedded within the use of technology. It is a site of contestation -- between human and machine, between the material and the social, between the political and the technological -- that both defines and elides differences. A virtuoso in multiple disciplines, Hookway offers a theory of the interface that draws on cultural theory, political theory, philosophy, art, architecture, new media, and the history of science and technology. He argues that the theoretical mechanism of the interface offers a powerful approach to questions of the human relationship to technology. Hookway finds the origin of the term interface in nineteenth-century fluid dynamics



and traces its migration to thermodynamics, information theory, and cybernetics. He discusses issues of subject formation, agency, power, and control, within contexts that include technology, politics, and the social role of games. He considers the technological augmentation of humans and the human-machine system, discussing notions of embodied intelligence. Hookway views the figure of the subject as both receiver and active producer in processes of subjectification. The interface, he argues, stands in a relation both alien and intimate, vertiginous and orienting to those who cross its threshold.