The Crimes of Digital Capitalism

Aitor Jimenez is Associate Professor in the Department of Law at the University of the Basque Country and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law. He is also a Research Affiliate at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).

"This book makes a blistering case for the urgency ... to do all we can to wriggle free and curtail the influence and limit the damage done by criminal corporations, not least Big Tech. Our very survival may depend on it."-- "Theoretical Criminology" "Aitor Jimenez's The Crimes of Digital Capitalism is not just the first in-depth analysis of the many harms of big tech capitalism from a corporate criminology perspective, but also beautifully tells the stories of humans and non-humans who are being harmed. Written for a general audience, I highly recommend the book for scholars, activists and anyone interested in where digital capitalism is taking us."-- "Christine Parker, author of The Open Corporation: Business Self-Regulation and Democracy" "In The Crimes of Digital Capitalism, Jimenez exposes the insidious ways state-corporate power and digital technologies have reshaped and colonized contemporary social life. Jimenez reveals the structural dependence of digital capitalism on crime, showing how it exploits, controls, and dispossesses across key sectors--from the environment and education to labor and warfare. With unmatched clarity, Jimenez elucidates the harmful impacts of digital capitalism--from surveillance and worker exploitation to racialized algorithmic systems--while uncovering the necropolitical dynamics at its core. Jimenez calls for a transformative future, one that dismantles these destructive systems and envisions a world where life can thrive."-- "Jose Atiles, author of Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico"