In Digitize and Punish, Brian Jefferson argues that the US policing and incarceration infrastructure is increasingly marked by new forms of racialized digital criminalization. Examining the incorporation of digital technologies into the criminal justice apparatus, Jefferson shows the central role that digital technology and data science has had in reinforcing racial surveillance practices since the War on Drugs and Crime began more than four decades ago. Jefferson’s timely new book traces the merging of carcerality and technology in Chicago and New York City, unveiling forms of digital racial management that have remained largely obscured from the public.
Articles by Anastasia Kārkliņa
Anastasia Kārkliņa is a cultural analyst and a PhD candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University, where she specializes in Black studies and feminist theory. Her research interests include Black radical thought and imagination and the politics of race and gender in contemporary US culture. Anastasia holds a BA in African and African American Studies and Political Science, also from Duke University.