The challenges of doing criminology in the big data era: towards a digital and data-driven approach

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 controlle...

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Autor principal: Smith, Gavin J. D. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Moses, Lyria Bennett ; Chan, Janet B. L.
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
En: The British journal of criminology
Año: 2017, Volumen: 57, Número: 2, Páginas: 259-274
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Palabras clave:
Big Data
Cybercrime
Cyberkriminalität
Cyberpolitic
Digital criminology
Digitale Fahndung
Epistemology
Internetkriminalität
Technopolicing
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:1464-3529
DOI:10.1093/bjc/azw096