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‘Crime before it happens’: new technologies, old promises




AuthorsGatti, Carlo

PublisherUniversity of Turku

Publication year2025

Journal: Insights: Professional Legal Blog of the Faculty of Law, University of Turku

Issue13.1.2025

eISSN2984-5246

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Abstract

Predictive Policing is a buzzword gaining increasing attention both within and beyond academia. However, as is often the case when socio-technical phenomena are wrapped in clichéd tropes for communicative immediacy, utopian or apocalyptic fantasies cloud efforts to understand the implications of predictive algorithms in policing.


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