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Crime and punishment in the future Internet
Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet: Digital Frontier Technologies and Criminology in the Twenty-First Century is a first examination and an in-depth theoretical account of the development and impact of digital frontier technologies (DFTs) such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of things, autonomous mobile robots, and blockchain to offending, crime control, the criminal justice system, and the discipline of criminology. It strives to pose some criminological, legal, ethical, and policy questions linked to such development and anticipate possible/probable impacts 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. Two key concerns lie at the heart of this volume. Firstly, 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. While it is impossible to know where the emerging technologies are taking us, there is no doubt DFTs will shape the way we engage with and experience criminal behaviour in the twenty-first century. As such, this book aims to start the conversation about a range of essential topics that this development brings to social science, and to begin to decipher challenges we will be facing in the future.