This course examines how technology – in particular Artificial Intelligence – reshapes crime, harm, and social control in contemporary society. Students will learn the utility of exploring the complex relationship between technology and harm with a sociological lens. The course investigates how acts become crimes through a process of social construction, such as in response to concerns and consequences of new technologies. Our case studies include e-commerce for banned goods and services, digital crime networks, and the electronic organization of extremism. The course then shifts to how powerful institutions leverage technology for surveillance and control to maintain social order. The course concludes by exploring related challenges between liberation of control. Is there a balance? Can we find it?