social justice

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor is a groundbreaking work by political scientist and technologist Virginia Eubanks. Published in 2018, the book examines the rise of automated decision-making systems in public service sectors such as welfare, housing, and child protection. Eubanks argues that these technologies disproportionately target and penalize poor

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With her concise and powerful book Are Prisons Obsolete?, published in 2003, American activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis delivers a fundamental critique of the prison system in the United States. She argues that the prison has become a normalized and invisible institution—deeply embedded in the fabric of modern society—despite its racist, classist, and patriarchal

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