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To predict and to manage. Predictive policing in the United States

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ID5260396
AuthorsBilel Benbouzid (0000-0002-8515-1718, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume6
Issue1
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBig Data & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2053-9517 • E-ISSN: 2053-9517
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2053951719861703
OpenAlexW2959702042
LanguageEN
Citations received38
References cited12

This article offers a detailed examination of the content of predictive policing applications. Crime prediction machines are used by governments to shape the moral behavior of police. They serve not only to predict when and where crime is likely to occur, but also to regulate police work. They calculate equivalence ratios, distributing security across the territory based on multiple cost and social justice criteria. Tracing the origins of predictive policing in the Compstat system, this article studies the shift from machines to explore intuitions (where police officers still have control over the machine) to applications removing the reflexive dimension of proactivity, thus turning prediction into the medium for "dosage" metrics of police work quantities. Finally, the article discusses how, driven by a critical movement denouncing the discriminatory biases of predictive machines, developers seek to develop techniques to audit training dataset and ways to calculate the reasonable amount of stop and frisk over the population

Audit · Business · Computer security · Criminal justice · Criminology · Machine learning · Population · Predictive analytics · Predictive modelling · Proactivity · Sociology · Tracing · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · Psychology · Social Psychology · Accounting

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Unique citing works38
Citations per year6,33
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 29

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