Critical Perspectives on Predictive Policing

Edited by Vasilis Galis, Professor in Science and Technology Studies, Technologies in Practice section, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Helene O.I. Gundhus, Professor, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway and Antonis Vradis, Reader, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

• ContentsPreface1 Introduction: the discreet charm of predictive policing 1Vasils Galis, Helene O. I. Gundhus and Antonis Vradis2 Mutable mobilities: digital surveillance, agency, and the reshaping of traffic in Latvia 21Emilis Kilis and Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica3 The birth of spatial transgression: genealogies and regulatory instruments in the use of Facial Recognition Technologies in the UK 43Evie Papada and Antonis Vradis4 From personal archives to intelligence: visibility and ignorance in forecasting ‘“youth at risk”’ 65Pernille Erichsen Skjevrak and Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus5(Un)predictable futures of policing: a social transformation approach 87Anu Masso, Tayfun Kasapoglu and Andrea Maccarini6 Prohibited AI surveillance practices in the Artificial Intelligence Act: promises and pitfalls in protecting fundamental rights111Irena Barkane and Lolita Buka7 What constitutes predictive policing? The case of POL-INTEL in Denmark 131Björn Karlsson and Vasilis Galis8 Predictive policing in Sweden: the case of STATUS 153Giorgos MattesPre + diction: Aafterword by Mareile Kaufmann

‘This is a timely and thought-provoking interdisciplinary collection that adopts a critical perspective examining developments in predictive policing. The chapters engage an impressive range of conceptual tools and analysis, offering important methodological and theoretical approaches that will prove invaluable to scholars across a wide range of disciplines.’