Big Data, Crime and Social Control

Drawing on research from Europe and the US, this book identifies the various ways in which law and ethics intersect with the application of big data in social and crime control and considers potential challenges to human rights and democracy.

Aleš Završnik is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Foreword, Katja Franko, Part I: Introduction. 1. Big Data: What Is It and Why Does it Matter for Crime and Social Control?, Aleš Završnik, Part II: Automated Social Control. 2. Paradoxes of Privacy in an Era of Asymmetrical Social Control, Frank Pasquale, 3. Big Data - Big Ignorance, Renata Salecl, 4. Machines, Humans, and the Question of Control, Zoran Kandü, Part III: Automated Policing. 5. Data Collection Without Limits: Automated Policing and the Politics of Framelessness, Mark Andrejevic, 6. Algorithmic Patrol: The Futures of Predictive Policing, Dean Wilson, Part IV: Automated Justice. 7. Algorithmic Crime Control, Aleš Završnik, 8. Subjectivity, Algorithms, and the Courtroom, Katja Šugman Stubbs and Mojca M. Plesni-ar, Part V: Big Data Automation Limitations. 9. Judicial Oversight of the (Mass) Collection and Processing of Personal Data, Primož Gorki-, 10. Big Data and Economic Cyber Espionage: An International Law Perspective, Maruša T. Veber and Maša Kovi- Dine