The Carceral Surround

"Departing from Fred Turner's figure of the democratic surround, R. Joshua Scannell theorizes the convergence of racial liberalism and technologized policing in the United States. With a powerful combination of political commitment and scholarly rigor, The Carceral Surround shows how computation and policing became integrated-and how that integration extends far beyond hardware and software expressly developed for use by the police." -Seb Franklin, author of The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value

"At once an expansive study of the framework of policing and an indictment of its logics, The Carceral Surround is a thorough analysis of the commercial, computational, and carceral work of state violence. From crime databases, crowd surveillance at protests, and predictive policing to biosurveillance sensors, ShotSpotter, and their precursive formations, R. Joshua Scannell offers new insight into racial capitalism and its mechanisms, and, importantly, its undoing." -Simone Browne, author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness