RT Article
T1 Rethinking how Technologies Harm
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 61
IS 3
SP 627
OP 647
A1 Wood, Mark A.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1760575615
AB Understanding how technologies contribute to social harms is a perennial issue, animating debate within and well beyond criminology. This article contributes to these debates in two ways. First, it critically examines five of the key approaches criminologists have used to think through how technologies contribute to harms. Second, it proposes a new approach to understanding ‘technology-harm relations’. Bringing the theory of critical realism, Simondon and Floridi into conversation, the proposed approach offers a stratigraphy of harm that enables us to excavate the different layers of human-technology and technology-harm relations. In doing so, it enables us to distinguish between four technology-harm relations that untangle the socio-technicality of harmful events: instrumental utility harms, generative utility harms, instrumental technicity harms and generative technicity harms.
K1 Harm
K1 technology  and  crime
K1 Digital criminology
K1 Critical Realism
K1 Zemiology
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa074