Taking a critical approach, this book advances understanding of the social, legal and ethical aspects of digitalisation in law enforcement and the reliance on data-driven tools to predict and prevent crime. It shows how the proliferation of data analytics challenges citizens rights, at a time when what counts as safety or policing is being fundamentally transformed.
Expert contributors examine data driven policing infrastructures across Europe from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, showing how its day-to-day application differs from intended aims, and the consequences of this. With ethnographic case studies from border to traffic control, and from facial recognition to essentially automated data analytics, the authors argue that predictive policing is shaped not only by technology, but also by the imaginaries, policy, power, interest and resistance within policing agencies.
Offering a critical perspective on this topical subject, Critical Perspectives on Predictive Policing is an excellent resource for scholars in critical criminology, critical geography, science and technology studies, and digital and urban studies.
Arvustused
This is a timely and thought-provoking interdisciplinary collection that adopts a critical perspective examining developments in predictive policing. The chapters engage an impressive range of conceptual tools and analysis, offering important methodological and theoretical approaches that will prove invaluable to scholars across a wide range of disciplines. -- Dean Wilson, University of Sussex, UK This book provides rich empirical and thoughtful conceptual analyses. With its STS-inspired, international, interdisciplinary as well as critical approach, it contributes significantly to the debate on predictive policing, which is still incomplete despite numerous related publications. -- Simon Egbert, Bielefeld University, Germany
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction: the discreet charm of predictive policing 1
Vasils Galis, Helene O. I. Gundhus and Antonis Vradis
2 Mutable mobilities: digital surveillance, agency, and the reshaping of
traffic in Latvia 21
Emilis Kilis and Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica
3 The birth of spatial transgression: genealogies and regulatory instruments
in the use of Facial Recognition Technologies in the UK 43
Evie Papada and Antonis Vradis
4 From personal archives to intelligence: visibility and ignorance in
forecasting youth at risk 65
Pernille Erichsen Skjevrak and Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus
5(Un)predictable futures of policing: a social transformation approach 87
Anu Masso, Tayfun Kasapoglu and Andrea Maccarini
6 Prohibited AI surveillance practices in the Artificial Intelligence Act:
promises and pitfalls in protecting fundamental rights 111
Irena Barkane and Lolita Buka
7 What constitutes predictive policing? The case of POL-INTEL in Denmark 131
Björn Karlsson and Vasilis Galis
8 Predictive policing in Sweden: the case of STATUS 153
Giorgos Mattes
Pre + diction: Aafterword by Mareile Kaufmann
Edited by Vasilis Galis, Professor, Technologies in Practice (TIP), IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Helene O.I. Gundhus, Professor, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway and Antonis Vradis, Reader, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
