Predictive Policing
Readings and case studies on the applications of data science in predictive policing and the ethical implications of using statistical models in such settings.
Interactions with World
Interpreting Models as Knowledge
| Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Criminal Justice Needs | Rigano (2019) |
| Police Use of Face Recognition Is Sweeping the UK | Nast (2023) |
| Predictive Policing Algorithms are Racist. They Need to be Dismantled. | Heaven (2020) |
| Weapons of Math Destruction | O’Neil (2016) |
| Machine Bias | Angwin, Larson, Kirchner, & Mattu (2016) |
| What Happens When Police Use AI to Predict and Prevent Crime? | Reese (2022) |
| To Predict and Serve? | Lum & Isaac (2016) |
| An Episode in the History of PreCrime | Lemov (2018) |
| Dirty Data, Bad Predictions: How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems, and Justice | Richardson, Schultz, & Crawford (2019) |
| Want to Predict the Future of Surveillance? Ask Poor Communities | Eubanks (2014) |
References
Angwin, J., Larson, J., Kirchner, L., & Mattu, S. (2016). Machine Bias. https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing; ProPublica.
Eubanks, V. (2014). Want to predict the future of surveillance? Ask poor communities. https://prospect.org/power/want-predict-future-surveillance-ask-poor-communities./; The American Prospect.
Heaven, W. D. (2020). Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/17/1005396/predictive-policing-algorithm-racist-dismantled-machine-learning-bias-criminal-justice/; MIT Technology Review.
Lemov, R. (2018). An episode in the history of PreCrime. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 48, 637–647. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2018.48.5.637
Lum, K., & Isaac, W. (2016). To predict and serve? Significance, 13, 14–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00960.x
Nast, C. (2023). Police use of face recognition is sweeping the UK. https://www.wired.com/story/uk-police-face-recognition-expansion/#:~:text=In%202023%20so%20far%2C%20the,faces%20and%20arresting%20two%20people.; Wired.
O’Neil, C. (2016). Weapons of math destruction. Crown Publishing Group.
Reese, H. (2022). Using artificial intelligence to address criminal justice needs. https://daily.jstor.org/what-happens-when-police-use-ai-to-predict-and-prevent-crime/; JSTOR Daily.
Richardson, R., Schultz, J., & Crawford, K. (2019). Dirty data, bad predictions: How civil rights violations impact police data, predictive policing systems, and justice. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3333423; New York University Law Review.
Rigano, C. (2019). Using artificial intelligence to address criminal justice needs. https://www.nij.gov/journals/280/Pages/using-artificial-intelligence-to-address-criminal-justice-needs.aspx; NIJ Journal 280.