Big Data, Crime and Social Control (Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367227568 ISBN 13: 9780367227562

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

From predictive policing to self-surveillance to private security, the potential uses to of big data in crime control pose serious legal and ethical challenges relating to privacy, discrimination, and the presumption of innocence. The book is about the impacts of the use of big data analytics on social and crime control and on fundamental liberties.

Drawing on research from Europe and the US, this book identifies the various ways in which law and ethics intersect with the application of big data in social and crime control, considers potential challenges to human rights and democracy and recommends regulatory solutions and best practice. This book focuses on changes in knowledge production and the manifold sites of contemporary surveillance, ranging from self-surveillance to corporate and state surveillance. It tackles the implications of big data and predictive algorithmic analytics for social justice, social equality, and social power: concepts at the very core of crime and social control.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of criminology, sociology, politics and socio-legal studies.

About this title

About the Author

Aleš Završnik is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367227568
• ISBN 13: 9780367227562
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Završnik Aleš