Katja Franko Aas is Associate Professor at the Institute of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. She has written extensively on the use of information and communication technologies in criminal justice systems including Sentencing in the Age of Information: from Faust to Macintosh (Glasshouse Press, 2005, shared winner of the 2006 Hart SLSA book prize) and Globalization and Crime (SAGE Publications, 2007). Her most recent book is Technologies of Insecurity: the surveillance of everyday life (Routledge, 2008), co-edited with H.M. Lomell and H. O. Gundhus.