Criminal Futures - Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work (Paperback)

This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field research in Germany and Switzerland, this book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of how the police produce and act upon criminal futures as part of their everyday work practices. The authors argue that predictive policing must not be analyzed as an isolated technological artifact, but as part of a larger sociotechnical system that is embedded in organizational structures and occupational cultures. The book highlights how, for crime prediction software to come to matter and play a role in more efficient and targeted police work, several translation processes are needed to align human and nonhuman actors across different divisions of police work. Police work is a key function for the production and maintenance of public order, but it can also discriminate, exclude, and violate civil liberties and human rights. When criminal futures come into being in the form of algorithmically produced risk estimates, this can have wide-ranging consequences. Building on empirical findings, the book presents a number of practical recommendations for the prudent use of algorithmic analysis tools in police work that will speak to the protection of civil liberties and human rights as much as they will speak to the professional needs of police organizations. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, and cultural studies as well as to police practitioners and civil liberties advocates, in addition to all those who are interested in how to implement reasonable forms of data-driven policing.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Policing and Society
Release date:	June 2022
First published:	2021
Authors:	Simon Egbert • Matthias Leese
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-64361-4
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > Data structures Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Algorithms & procedures Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > General Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Organizational theory & behaviour
LSN:	0-367-64361-8
Barcode:	9780367643614

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