scholarly journals The datafication revolution in criminal justice: An empirical exploration of frames portraying data-driven technologies for crime prevention and control

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205395172110496
Author(s):  
Anita Lavorgna ◽  
Pamela Ugwudike
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
And Control ◽  
Digital Capital

The proliferation of big data analytics in criminal justice suggests that there are positive frames and imaginaries legitimising them and depicting them as the panacea for efficient crime control. Criminological and criminal justice scholarship has paid insufficient attention to these frames and their accompanying narratives. To address the gap created by the lack of theoretical and empirical insight in this area, this article draws on a study that systematically reviewed and compared multidisciplinary academic abstracts on the data-driven tools now shaping decision-making across several justice systems. Using insights distilled from the study, the article proposes three frames (optimistic, neutral, oppositional) for understanding how the technologies are portrayed. Inherent in the frames are a set of narratives emphasising their ostensible status as vital crime control mechanisms. These narratives obfuscate the harms of data-driven technologies and evince idealistic imaginaries of their capabilities. The narratives are bolstered by unequal structural arrangements, specifically the unevenly distributed digital capital with which some are empowered to participate in technology development for criminal justice application and other forms of penal governance. In unravelling these issues, the article advances current understanding of the dynamics that sustain the depiction of data-driven technologies as prime crime prevention and law enforcement tools.

scholarly journals Guardianship in the Digital Age

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle M. Reynald
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Digital Crime ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
And Control

This conceptual article focuses on the potential to advance and extend guardianship using new digital crime prevention applications that have been developed as a consequence of technological advancements in communication and social engagement. The new opportunity structure for informal guardianship through active citizen participation and involvement in crime prevention and control efforts using the Internet and smartphones is discussed to emphasize how this has changed in the digital age. Specifically, the article highlights how the fundamental tenets of guardianship (i.e., what it means to be available, how supervision or monitoring is carried out and ways of intervening) have evolved due to neighborhood watch/community safety mobile applications. Based on what we have learned about guardianship, this article considers the potential for these digital crime prevention applications to extend and support guardianship. It also assesses these applications critically by highlighting some of the concerns and risks that need to be considered amid the proliferation of these new platforms for crime control. The article concludes by weighing up the pros and cons with a view to focusing on key issues in the continued development of such applications so their potential can be maximized.

Organizing the Division

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-119
Author(s):  
Luis Daniel Gascón ◽  
Aaron Roussell
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Community Meeting

The chapter examines the captaincy of Albert Himura and his academy trainer, Rick Patton. Together, these Captains defined the organizational structure of the two groups the authors observed—the CPAB and the HO—throughout their fieldwork. The authors explore the community meeting structure under Captain Himura, whose main goal is to cultivate the capacity for community crime control. This begins with recruiting pro-law-enforcement thinkers. They also discuss how Captain Patton controlled the symbolic boundaries of meetings—who could participate, the agenda, and what messages should be circulated within and outside meetings—and show how police shape and restrict the role of the citizen in crime prevention. Regular meetings demonstrate that LAPD wishes to collaborate, but at the same time the Captain and SLOs favor LAPD’s traditional crime-fighting project.

A Research Evaluation of the Israeli New Pretrial Detention Act

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 266-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagit Lernau
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Law System ◽  
Justice Process ◽  
The Law

One of the most influential attempts to describe and comprehend the criminal law system is Packer's celebrated notion regarding the “Two Models of the Criminal Justice System.” Packer regards the criminal justice process as an image constantly shifting between two conflicting models — the “Crime Control Model” and the “Due Process Model” of criminal law. The first model strives to create an effective criminal system that will protect society's right to peace and safety. This aim may be achieved by emphasizing the earlier, informal stages in the law enforcement procedure, namely, police investigation and the decision to prosecute. The second model aims to ensure that the law enforcement process, which is one of the most coercive powers of the state, will be conducted in a lawful manner that will protect suspects and defendants from both intentional wrongdoing and from unintentional mistakes.

Big Data and Visuality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Chan
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Predictive Tool ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Big Data Technology

Internet and telecommunications, ubiquitous sensing devices, and advances in data storage and analytic capacities have heralded the age of Big Data, where the volume, velocity, and variety of data not only promise new opportunities for the harvesting of information, but also threaten to overload existing resources for making sense of this information. The use of Big Data technology for criminal justice and crime control is a relatively new development. Big Data technology has overlapped with criminology in two main areas: (a) Big Data is used as a type of data in criminological research, and (b) Big Data analytics is employed as a predictive tool to guide criminal justice decisions and strategies. Much of the debate about Big Data in criminology is concerned with legitimacy, including privacy, accountability, transparency, and fairness. Big Data is often made accessible through data visualization. Big Data visualization is a performance that simultaneously masks the power of commercial and governmental surveillance and renders information political. The production of visuality operates in an economy of attention. In crime control enterprises, future uncertainties can be masked by affective triggers that create an atmosphere of risk and suspicion. There have also been efforts to mobilize data to expose harms and injustices and garner support for resistance. While Big Data and visuality can perform affective modulation in the race for attention, the impact of data visualization is not always predictable. By removing the visibility of real people or events and by aestheticizing representations of tragedies, data visualization may achieve further distancing and deadening of conscience in situations where graphic photographic images might at least garner initial emotional impact.

‘Smart’ crime prevention? Digitization and racialized crime control in a Smart City

2020 ◽  
pp. 136248062097270
Author(s):  
Pat O’Malley ◽  
Gavin JD Smith
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Led Lighting ◽  
Visible Minorities ◽  
Smart Technologies

As part of the global Smart Cities movement, the Switching on Darwin programme foregrounds digitally enhanced government and urbanism. While promoting its environmental and democratizing potential, software-enhanced CCTV, LED lighting and geofencing were among the first components rolled out. In practice, these technologies will impact adversely on Aboriginal people, already disproportionately targeted by criminal justice processes. By integrating multiple ‘smart’ technologies with ‘public safety’ agendas, such Smart City developments provide the potential for intensified criminalization of visible minorities.

scholarly journals Across the borders in search of best practices: International comparative criminology at the UN

Temida ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
del Alvazzi
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Comparative Criminology ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
And Control

This paper analyzes the changes of the focus of the UN Committee on Crime Prevention and Control through time and the formation of the new Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The focus of the paper is the contribution of Dusan Cotic, the last Chairman of the Committee.

Guardianship

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle M. Reynald
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
New Directions ◽  
And Control

The concept of guardianship has been defined as “any spatio-temporally specific supervision of people or property by other people which may prevent criminal violations from occurring.” As a key process of crime prevention and control by informal citizens, research on guardianship has revealed that it is negatively associated with crime, suggesting its importance as an effective crime control strategy. This chapter provides an overview of the theoretical origins of the guardianship concept, and reviews key empirical studies that have contributed to the development of criminological understanding of how guardianship functions to control crime. It concludes with a discussion of current research being done and the new directions currently being charted for continued insights into the processes and mechanisms that facilitate effective guardianship for crime prevention.

Justice-System Monitoring Technologies and Victim Welfare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Control Culture ◽  
Repeat Victimization ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Monitoring Technologies ◽  
Transformative Impact ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

The evolution of criminal justice technologies is inextricably linked to the emergence of new modes of electronic and digital governance that have become essential components of a surveillance and crime control culture continually seeking out novel responses to actual and perceived threats. The slow emergence of these technologies in the second part of the 20th century was often theorized through a discourse of order and control that has subsequently evolved in the 21st century to emphasize the protective potential of technologies oriented toward the interests of victims. The potential of criminal justice technologies to improve public safety and address issues of repeat victimization has now been subjected to significant scrutiny from scholars across the globe. While it would be conceptually inaccurate to split offenders and victims into two discrete groups, there has been an increase in analytical focus upon the intersections between victims of crime and technology within the context of criminal justice processes that had traditionally been oriented toward offenders. A more sophisticated understanding of the psychological and behavioral potential of criminal justice technologies has emerged that has permanently adjusted the landscape of crime and disorder management and has had a transformative impact upon the relationship between victims, technology, and criminal justice. Yet, at the same time, the integration of digital technologies into the crime control and criminal justice infrastructure still is at an early stage in its evolution, with future trends and patterns uncertain.

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