{"product_id":"9783030868604","title":"Precarious Futures Crime, Technology and the Web","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePrecarious Futures\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCrime, Technology and the Web\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eChristopher Hamerton | Craig Webber\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Criminology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePrecarious Futures\u003c\/i\u003e explores the evolving and emerging relationship between crime and technology in an increasingly complex and interconnected world, along with its implications for new perceptions of crime and deviance. It evaluates the rise of the World Wide Web and the model of cybercrime, questions whether existing criminological thought offers relevance and efficacy in current circumstances, conditions and future predictions, and revisits the concept of Relative Deprivation and the underpinning social psychological and socio-political foundations of it. It argues that Relative Deprivation allied to post-industrial precarity provides a central platform for understanding crime and deviance in a hyper-connected and hyper-commercial neoliberal world. The book develops to explore current criminological and security conceptions of artificial intelligence, big data, crime and social control, as well as hacktivism, and how opportunities for crime have become‘democratised’ and expanded through the Web. Drawing on empirical data, theoretical narratives and a review of the state of crime now and in a speculative near future, Hamerton and Webber discuss some potential directions for a new transdisciplinary critical criminology. \u003ci\u003ePrecarious Futures\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to criminologists, sociologists and social theory scholars and students, as well as academics and professionals in associated technological fields such as cyber-security, computer science and web science.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Hamerton\u003c\/b\u003e is Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Research at the University of Southampton, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cb\u003eCraig Webber\u003c\/b\u003e is Head of the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton, UK.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18 November 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783030868604\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44373008875660,"sku":"9783030868604","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030868604","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}