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In: | Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 15, 2019, 2, p. 323-339 |
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SAGE Publications
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Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
Physical Description: | 323-339 |
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ISSN: |
1741-6590
1741-6604 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1741659018774609 |
published in: | Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal |
Language: | English |
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Collection: | SAGE Publications (CrossRef) |
<jats:p>This article makes a case for the value of science fiction to criminologists through examining the popular Japanese cyber-punk anime series Psycho-Pass. Through portraying a surveillance society of pre-crime and algorithmic policing, Psycho-Pass raises important questions about the datafication of crime and its role in facilitating increasingly invasive and ubiquitous forms of social control. Psycho-Pass, I argue, encourages us to question a society of algorithmic tyranny: a society where the overwhelming majority of classifications are driven by algorithms, and where crime has been reduced to a data object and ‘measureable type’. I conclude my case for incorporating the technological imagination of science fiction into the criminological imagination through identifying three key resources the genre may offer criminologists: archaeological, pedagogical and capacity building for reflexive governance.</jats:p> |