Security as Socio‐Technical Practice: Predictive Policing and (Non‐)Automation

Author(s): Matthias Leese
Journal Title: Swiss Political Science Review
Volume: 27
Issue: 1
Publisher(s): Swiss Political Science Association
Publication Year: 2021

Predictive policing is among the most prevalent new technological tools for law enforcement. Understanding how the police produce knowledge about crime and society in technologically mediated ways is important vis-a-vis practices of social ordering. In this Swiss Political Science Review article, CSS' Matthias Leese suggests to draw on literature from Science and Technology Studies (STS) in order to understand the impact of technology not as analytically isolated artefact, but as embedded in socio-technical relations that define how it comes to matter in everyday practice.

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