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Charlie May Simon materials
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Algorithmic crime prevention. From abstract police to precision policing
Full text linkThe growing digitisation in our society also affects policing, which tends
to make use of increasingly refined algorithmic tools based on abstract
technologies. But the abstraction of technology, we argue, does not
necessarily entail an increase in abstraction of police work. This paper
contrasts the ‘abstract police’ debate with an analysis of police practices
that use digital technologies to achieve greater precision. While the
notion of abstract police assumes that computerisation distances police
officers from their community, our empirical investigation of a geoanalysis unit in a German Land Office of Criminal Investigation shows
that the adoption of abstract procedures does not by itself imply a
detachment from local reference and community contact. What we call
contextual reference can be productively combined with the
impersonality and anonymity of algorithmic procedures, leading also to
more effective and focused forms of collaboration with local entities.
On the basis of our empirical results, we suggest a more nuanced
understanding of the digitalisation of police work. Rather than leading
to a progressive estrangement from the community of reference, the
use of digital techniques can enable experimentation with innovative
forms of ‘precision policing’, particularly in the field of crime prevention
Diskurs und Materialität. Eine Dispositivanalyse des Drogentestens
Full text linkEgbert S. Diskurs und Materialität. Eine Dispositivanalyse des Drogentestens. Theorie und Praxis der Diskursforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS; 2022
'Soziologie des Wertens und Bewertens' von Anne K. Krüger. Bielefeld: Transcript 2022
No full textEgbert S. 'Soziologie des Wertens und Bewertens' von Anne K. Krüger. Bielefeld: Transcript 2022. Soziologische Revue. 2023;46(2):154-157
A Pandemic of Prediction: On the Circulation of Contagion Models between Public Health and Public Safety.
Full text linkDigital prediction tools increasingly complement or replace other practices of coping with
an uncertain future. The current COVID-19 pandemic, it seems, is further accelerating
the spread of prediction. The prediction of the pandemic yields a pandemic of prediction.
In this paper, we explore this dynamic, focusing on contagion models and their transmission
back and forth between two domains of society: public health and public safety. We
connect this movement with a fundamental duality in the prevention of contagion risk
concerning the two sides of being-at-risk and being-a-risk. Both in the spread of a disease
and in the spread of criminal behavior, a person at risk can be a risk to others and vice
versa. Based on key examples, from this perspective we observe and interpret a circular
movement in three phases. In the past, contagion models have moved from public health
to public safety, as in the case of the Strategic Subject List used in the policing activity of
the Chicago Police Department. In the present COVID-19 pandemic, the analytic tools
of policing wander to the domain of public health — exemplary of this movement is the cooperation
between the data infrastructure firm Palantir and the UK government’s public
health system NHS. The expectation that in the future the predictive capacities of digital
contact tracing apps might spill over from public health to policing is currently shaping
the development and use of tools such as the Corona-Warn-App in Germany. In all these
cases, the challenge of pandemic governance lies in managing the connections and the exchanges
between the two areas of public health and public safety while at the same time
keeping the autonomy of each
Vorhersagen und Entscheiden: Predictive Policing in Polizeiorganisationen
Full text linkIn the course of digitalisation, predictive algorithms are used in many
organisations. The article analyses the effects of this algorithmisation on decisions in the police taking the example of predictive policing. Under the term predictive policing, police organisations are increasingly using algorithms to forecast and prevent criminal behaviour. Based on the differentiation of two variants
of predictive policing software, which are characterised by a different degree of
opacity for their users, the article examines the effects of these algorithms on
central decision premises of police organisations: programmes, communication
channels and persons. The analysis enables an outlook on the consequences of
the future development of predictive software for the police as an organisation,
which we present in the conclusion: In vielen Organisationen kommen im Zuge der Digitalisierung
Algorithmen zum Einsatz, die Vorhersagen generieren. Dieser Beitrag analysiert
die Auswirkungen dieser Algorithmisierung auf Entscheidungen in der Polizei am
Beispiel von Predictive Policing. Unter Predictive Policing wird die zunehmende
Verwendung von Prognosesoftware zur Vorhersage und Prävention kriminellen
Verhaltens in Polizeiorganisationen verstanden. Ausgehend von der Differenzierung zweier Varianten polizeilicher Prognosesoftware, die sich durch einen
unterschiedlichen Grad an Verständlichkeit für deren Nutzer:innen auszeichnen,
untersucht der Beitrag die Auswirkungen dieser Algorithmen auf zentrale Entscheidungsprämissen polizeilicher Organisationen: Programme, Kommunikationswege und Personen. Die Analyse ermöglicht einen Ausblick auf die Folgen der
zukünftigen Entwicklung prädiktiver Software für die Polizei als Organisation, die
wir im Fazit darstellen
Improved Management of Major Shutdowns at Trail Operations
Full text linkEMBA Project-Simon Fraser Universit
About Discursive Storylines and Techno-Fixes: The Political Framing of the Implementation of Predictive Policing in Germany
No full textEgbert S. About Discursive Storylines and Techno-Fixes: The Political Framing of the Implementation of Predictive Policing in Germany. European Journal for Security Research. 2018;3(2):95-114
Simon Nyakot
Full text linkabstract: Simon Nyakot left his village when he was six years old.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 27Region: LakeThis picture and bio was donated to the Lost Boys Found project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
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