Description
Digital Criminology: Control and organized chaos in a ‘digital world’This panel contributes to innovative crime and justice scholarship within an emerging field of ‘digital criminology’. Instead of positioning technology as separate from society more broadly, digital criminology takes up the idea that all technologies are embedded in social structures and that all societies are embedded in technological infrastructures. More specifically, digital criminology examines the incorporation of digital technologies, media, and networks in our everyday lives, including in crime control, forensic science, and criminal justice (Stratton, Powell and Cameron, 2018; Wood, 2020; Kaufmann and Lomell forthcoming, Van Brakel and Govaerts, forthcoming). This digitalisation implies a more significant role for non-state actors, from increasingly powerful private actors to novel forms of political resistance and demands new understandings of concepts such as control, chaos, harm, and resistance. This panel aims to address these themes concerning the use of bodycams by police, surveillance used for environmental crime prevention, genetic forensic evidence, programmable DNA and criminalisation of online activities challenging authoritarian regimes.
Chair: Rosamunde Van Brakel
Speakers: Amr Marzouk, Silje Anderdal Bakken and Mareile Kaufmann, Julie Caluwaerts and Lucas Melgaço, Stefano Mazzilli Daechsel and Rosamunde Van Brakel
| Period | 13 Sep 2024 |
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| Event type | Other |
| Location | Bucharest, Romania |
| Degree of Recognition | International |