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Critical Perspectives on Predictive Policing: Anticipating Proof?

Critical Perspectives on Predictive Policing: Anticipating Proof?

Author: Vasilis Galis; Helene O.I. Gundhus; Antonis Vradis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035323029
Published In: February 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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.

Introduction: the discreet charm of predictive policing

Mutable mobilities: digital surveillance, agency, and the reshaping of traffic in Latvia

The birth of spatial transgression: genealogies and regulatory instruments in the use of Facial Recognition Technologies in the UK

From personal archives to intelligence: visibility and ignorance in forecasting “youth at risk”

(Un)predictable futures of policing: a social transformation approach

Prohibited AI surveillance practices in the Artificial Intelligence Act: promises and pitfalls in protecting fundamental rights

What constitutes predictive policing? The case of POLINTEL in Denmark

Predictive policing in Sweden: the case of STATUS