Technology, Crime and Justice: The Question Concerning 'Technomia'.

As technology comes to characterise our world in ever more comprehensive ways there are increasing questions about how the rights and wrongs of technological use can be adequately categorised. To date, the scope of such questions have been limited - focused upon specific technologies such as the internet, or bio-technology with little sense of any social or historical continuities in the way technology in general has been regulated. In this book, for the first time, the question of technology and its relation to criminal justice is approached as a whole. Technology, Crime & Justice analyses a range of technologies, (including information, communications, nuclear, biological, transport and weapons technologies, amongst many others) in order to pose three interrelated questions about their affects upon criminal justice and criminal opportunity: Bullet To what extent can they really be said to provide new criminal opportunity or to enhance existing ones? Bullet What are the key char