Simon Egbert, Matthias Leese

Broschiertes Buch

Criminal Futures

Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work

Beschreibung

This book explores how algorithmic prediction tools transform police work. Building on the growing literature at the intersection of policing and technology studies, this book examines the impact of predictive policing on organizational structures and the ways in which criminal futures are constructed by the police.

Autor

Simon Egbert is a postdoc researcher at the Department of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin. Trained in sociology and criminology, his research interests include science and technology studies, security studies, sociology of prediction, time studies, discourse theory, visual knowledge studies, and sociology of testing. He has published papers on predictive policing, drug testing, lie detection, and ignition interlock devices. Matthias Leese is Senior Researcher for governance and technology at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich. His research is primarily interested in the social effects produced at the intersections of security and technology. It pays specific attention to the normative repercussions of new security technologies across society, in both intended and unintended forms. His work covers various application contexts of security technologies, including airports, borders, policing, and R&D activities.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Policing and Society
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780367643614
• ISBN-10: 0367643618
• Artikelnr.: 64103011