Dear all,
<br>
<br>we are pleased to invite contributions to the panel on *“Digital
<br>Technologies in Policing and Security”* at the 4S/EASST Meeting in
<br>Prague on August 18-21, 2020 organized by Simon Egbert (TU Berlin) and
<br>Nikolaus Poechhacker (TU Munich) on behalf of the DTiPS Network.
<br>
<br>*Description:*
<br>Recent and globally disseminated technologies and processes of data
<br>analysis and computational science – mainly in reference to terms (and
<br>myths) like big data, algorithmic decision making and artificial
<br>intelligence – have transformed many processes of knowledge production
<br>in the field of domestic security practices. With predictive policing as
<br>one of its currently most prominent representatives, the data-driven
<br>production of (prospective) knowledge has now also affected the security
<br>systems at every level – from policing to criminal justice, from border
<br>control to counterterrorism policies. Different predictive models
<br>include generating risky spaces – like PredPol; risky individuals – like
<br>Chicago’s ‘strategic subject list’, EU-border risk assessment system
<br>EUROSUR and US’ Computer-Assisted Passenger Pre-screening System; or
<br>calculating the recidivism risk of convicted offenders in order to
<br>inform the sentence decision – like COMPAS. Thus, regardless of whether
<br>suspects or spaces are objects of (predictive) knowledge production, or
<br>if recidivism risk scores for convicted offenders are generated, in the
<br>end, these practices are increasingly characterized by a socio-technical
<br>interwovenness with digital data production and algorithmic
<br>technologies. This calls for an exploration of the sociotechnical
<br>dynamics involved in the co-construction of risks, (in)justice,
<br>(in)security and technological development. Correspondingly, this panel
<br>seeks to ask how STS can provide analytical tools for grasping the
<br>entanglement of technology and society involved in the development and
<br>implementation of digitally mediated knowledge production in policing,
<br>criminal justice, border control and other fields of security by
<br>presenting globally disseminated case examples as well as theoretical
<br>approaches on the digitalization and datafication of policing and
<br>security practices.
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<br>*See also:* https://dtips-network.org/2020/01/15/cfa-4s-easst-in-prague/
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<br>*Deadline:* 2020, February 29. Please hand in your abstract via
<br>https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/prague20/.
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<br>We are looking forward to your contributions!
<br>
<br>Simon & Nikolaus
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