Compliance-Industrial Complex: The Operating System of a Pre-Crime Society

The book explores the growth and phenomenon of a securitized and criminalized compliance society that relies on intelligence-led and predictive technologies to control future risks, crimes, and security threats. It articulates the emergence of a 'compliance-industrial complex' that synthesizes regulatory capitalism and surveillance capitalism to impose new regimes of power and control.

Format: Hardback
Length: 166 pages
Publication date: 01 November 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This groundbreaking book is the first to explore the growth and phenomenon of a securitized and criminalized compliance society, which increasingly relies on intelligence-led and predictive technologies to control future risks, crimes, and security threats. It articulates the emergence of a 'compliance-industrial complex,' which synthesizes regulatory capitalism and surveillance capitalism to impose new regimes of power and control, as well as new forms of subjectivity subservient to the 'operating system of a pre-crime society.' By examining compliance beyond frameworks of business management, corporate governance, law, and accounting, the book looks at it as a social phenomenon, instrumental in the pluralization and privatization of policing, where the private intelligence, private security, and big tech companies are being concentrated at the very core of compliance, and hence, governance of the social.

The critical book draws on transversal, rather than interdisciplinary, approaches and integrates disparate perspectives, inspired by works in critical criminology, critical algorithm studies, critical management studies, as well as social anthropology and philosophy.

This groundbreaking book is the first to explore the growth and phenomenon of a securitized and criminalized compliance society, which increasingly relies on intelligence-led and predictive technologies to control future risks, crimes, and security threats. It articulates the emergence of a 'compliance-industrial complex,' which synthesizes regulatory capitalism and surveillance capitalism to impose new regimes of power and control, as well as new forms of subjectivity subservient to the 'operating system of a pre-crime society.' By examining compliance beyond frameworks of business management, corporate governance, law, and accounting, the book looks at it as a social phenomenon, instrumental in the pluralization and privatization of policing, where the private intelligence, private security, and big tech companies are being concentrated at the very core of compliance, and hence, governance of the social.

The critical book draws on transversal, rather than interdisciplinary, approaches and integrates disparate perspectives, inspired by works in critical criminology, critical algorithm studies, critical management studies, as well as social anthropology and philosophy.

Weight: 376g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031192234
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022