Translation

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the concept of translation and its development in sociology and science and technologies studies, illustrating how it can help criminologists analyze different forms of digitized control. The chapter explains how translation can be used as a methodological device and conceptual framework to illuminate forensic practices in police investigations, and more generally the adoption and use of technologies in policing. Translational approaches can provide a multi-perspectival understanding of the contexts in which digitized control takes place, the technologies that help monitor it, and the justifications, motives, and practices that accompany the development t and implementation of such technologies.