RT Article
T1 The challenges of doing criminology in the big data era: towards a digital and data-driven approach
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 57
IS 2
SP 259
OP 274
A1 Smith, Gavin J. D.
A2 Moses, Lyria Bennett
A2 Chan, Janet B. L. 1948-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1565540107
AB This paper considers emerging challenges and opportunities confronting criminology in the age of Big Data. The mass proliferation of digital media/recording devices into social life is transforming in profound ways how crime is organized, perpetrated, experienced, represented, detected and controlled. Moreover, the extensive daily use of these technologies by institutions and individuals alike produces immense quantities of data that mediate social events, actions and experiences in significant, if subtle, ways. Such data are means of communication, knowledge and entertainment, as well as resources for analytic and criminal manipulation and community mobilization. We suggest that criminology must develop a digital specialism which investigates the multifaceted role performed by digital technologies as intersectional and transformative mediums in the crime and justice field.
K1 Digital criminology
K1 Big Data
K1 Cybercrime
K1 Technopolicing
K1 Cyberpolitic
K1 Epistemology
K1 Cyberkriminalität
K1 Internetkriminalität
K1 Digitale Fahndung
DO 10.1093/bjc/azw096