The 40th Anniversary Edition of Taylor, Walton and Young’s New Criminology, published in 2013, opened with these words: ‘The New Criminology was written at a particular time and place, it was a product of 1968 and its aftermath; a world turned upside down’. We are at a similar moment today. Several developments have been, and are turning, our 21st century world upside down. Among the most profound has been the emergence of a new earth, that the ‘Anthropocene’ references, and ‘cyberspace’, a term first used in the 1960s, which James Lovelock has recently termed a ‘Novacene’, a world that includes both human and artificial intelligences. We live today on an earth that is proving to be very different to the Holocene earth, our home for the past 12,000 years. To appreciate the Novacene one need only think of our ‘smart’ phones. This world constitutes a novel domain of existence that Castells has conceived of as a terrain of ‘material arrangements that allow for simultaneity of social practices without territorial contiguity’ – a world of sprawling material infrastructures, that has enabled a ‘space of flows’, through which massive amounts of information travel. Like the Anthropocene, the Novacene has brought with it novel ‘harmscapes’, for example, attacks on energy systems. In this paper, we consider how criminology has responded to these harmscapes brought on by these new worlds. We identify ‘lines of flight’ that are emerging, as these challenges are being met by criminological thinkers who are developing the conceptual trajectories that are shaping 21st century criminologies.

泰勒、沃尔顿和杨的新犯罪学40 周年纪念版于 2013 年出版，开篇是这样的：“新犯罪学是在特定的时间和地点写成的，它是 1968 年及其后果的产物；一个天翻地覆的世界'。我们今天也处于类似的时刻。一些发展已经并且正在颠覆我们 21 世纪的世界。其中最深刻的是“人类世”所指的新地球的出现，以及 1960 年代首次使用的术语“网络空间”，詹姆斯·洛夫洛克 (James Lovelock) 最近将其称为“新世”，该世界包括人类和人工智能。我们今天生活在一个被证明与全新世地球截然不同的地球上，全新世地球是我们过去 12,000 年的家园。要欣赏 Novacene，只需考虑我们的“智能”手机。这个世界构成了一个新的存在领域，Castells 将其设想为一个“物质安排的领域，允许社会实践同时进行，而没有领土连续性”——一个拥有庞大物质基础设施的世界，它实现了“流动空间”，通过大量的信息传输。与人类世一样，新世也带来了新的“危害景观”，例如对能源系统的攻击。在本文中，我们考虑了犯罪学如何应对这些新世界带来的危害。我们确定了正在出现的“逃逸路线”，因为这些挑战正在被犯罪学思想家迎接，他们正在开发塑造 21 世纪犯罪学的概念轨迹。