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Digital Punishment illuminates the power of digital tools like Google and state criminal record databases to vastly advance the accessibility of information, while at the same time devastating the reputations and lives of the persons they marginalize. Essential reading for anyone interested in the topics of digital memory, the future of reputation, and the mediation of reality by powerful state and corporate forces. -Frank Pasquale, Piper & Marbury Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law A stunning, brilliant, and deeply researched account-Digital Punishment reveals how the considerable challenges for those ensnared by American's criminal justice system have become exponentially more challenging in the big data era. -Mona Lynch, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California Irvine In this deeply researched account, Lageson paints an incisive and often terrifying picture of punishment in the twenty-first century, as America's mammoth penal system joins the online market for private data. In our digital age-when mugshots and rap sheets are bought and sold-this is the single best analysis of how we got here, what's at stake, and the steps necessary for building a more equitable future. -Forrest Stuart, author of Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy Gripping and meticulously researched, Digital Punishment takes us into the labyrinth of misinformation, commodification, and disparity that underlies online criminal records and reveals deep injustices that result from their proliferation. A must-read for anyone who connects to the Internet. -Megan Comfort, author of Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison The stigma of criminalization is not what it used to be. Today, the 'scarlet letter' floats around indefinitely in cyberspace and can be nearly impossible to remove. Lageson's pioneering and authoritative analysis brings the study of punishment squarely into the Digital Age and will inspire a new generation of research in the field. -Shadd Maruna, author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives

The stigma of criminalization is not what it used to be. Today, the 'scarlet letter' floats around indefinitely in cyberspace and can be nearly impossible to remove. Lageson's pioneering and authoritative analysis brings the study of punishment squarely into the Digital Age and will inspire a new generation of research in the field. -Shadd Maruna, author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives Gripping and meticulously researched, Digital Punishment takes us into the labyrinth of misinformation, commodification, and disparity that underlies online criminal records and reveals deep injustices that result from their proliferation. A must-read for anyone who connects to the Internet. -Megan Comfort, author of Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison In this deeply researched account, Lageson paints an incisive and often terrifying picture of punishment in the twenty-first century, as America's mammoth penal system joins the online market for private data. In our digital age-when mugshots and rap sheets are bought and sold-this is the single best analysis of how we got here, what's at stake, and the steps necessary for building a more equitable future. -Forrest Stuart, author of Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy A stunning, brilliant, and deeply researched account-Digital Punishment reveals how the considerable challenges for those ensnared by American's criminal justice system have become exponentially more challenging in the big data era. -Mona Lynch, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California Irvine Digital Punishment illuminates the power of digital tools like Google and state criminal record databases to vastly advance the accessibility of information, while at the same time devastating the reputations and lives of the persons they marginalize. Essential reading for anyone interested in the topics of digital memory, the future of reputation, and the mediation of reality by powerful state and corporate forces. -Frank Pasquale, Piper & Marbury Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law

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Sarah Esther Lageson is a sociologist who studies criminal justice, law, privacy, and technology. Lageson is Assistant Professor at Rutgers University-Newark School of Criminal Justice, a recipient of the National Institutes of Justice Early Career Award, and an American Bar Foundation Faculty Scholar.

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