Developed by Bruno Latour and his collaborators, actor-network theory (ANT) offers crimes studies a worthy intellectual challenge. It requires us to take the performativity turn, consider the role of objects in our analysis and conceptualize all actants (human and non-human) as relational beings. Thus power is not the property of one party, but rather it is an effect of the relationships among actants. This innovative collection provides a series of empirical and theoretical contributions that shows: - The importance of conceptualizing and analyzing technologies as crucial actants in crime and crime control. - The many facets of ANT: its various uses, its theoretical blending with other approaches, its methodological implications for the field. - The fruitfulness of ANT for studying technologies and crime studies: its potential and limitations for understanding the world and revamping crime studies research goals. Students, academics and policy-makers will benefit from reading this collection in order to explore criminology-related topics in a different way.

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Contents

• Preface by Katja Franko Aas

• Introduction: Thinking through Networks, Reaching for Objects and Witnessing Facticity by Dominique Robert and Martin Dufresne

• ​Situational Crime Prevention in Nightlife Spaces: An ANT Examination of PAD Dogs and Doorwork by Jakob Demant and Ella Dilkes-Frayne

• ​Actor Network Theory and CCTV Development by Anne-Cécile Douillet and Laurence Dumoulin

• ​How Does a Gene in a Scientifc Journal Affect My Future Behavior? by Martin Dufresne

• ​Making Crime Messy by Anita Lam

• Seeing Crime: ANT, Feminism and Images of Violence Against Women by Dawn Moore and Rashmee Singh

• Translating Critical Scholarship Out of the Academy: ANT, Deconstruction and Public Criminology  by Michael Mopas

• Can Electricity Soothe the Savage Breast? What Tasers Do to the Police Use of Force by Cédric Moreau de Bellaing

• The Relevance of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) for Research on the Use of Genetic Analysis for Identifcation in Criminal Justice by Bertrand Renard

• The Factishes of DNA Identification: How a Scientist Speaks about his Craft to Politicians by Dominique Robert and Martin Dufresne