Safety and security are often seen in light of crime, disorder and fear. This fuels a political and social climate obsessed with a negative logic of 'fighting' criminals, 'controlling' populations, and 'excluding' unwanted others. Other, more positive or constitutive, discourses and practices about safety and security have fallen out of fashion. But what alternatives to contemporary processes of securitization and criminalization can be imagined when starting from a positive critique of secur...

What are the new questions raised by AI for the prevention and detection of crime? How can we rationalise the Amazon Ring doorbell and Tesla’s Sentry Mode? How can algoracism be identified, and what should we think of data donation?

Surveillance today cannot be understood without an awareness of how AI and algorithms have become increasingly central in the governance of security. They have led to a substantial expansion in the depth and breadth of surveillance, ranging from mass data colle...

Een significant other is iemand die veel invloed uitoefent door zijn of haar wetenschappelijke werk. In deze bundel zijn 22 sociale wetenschappers geïnterviewd die grote betekenis hebben voor de culturele criminologie. Zij spreken uitgebreid over hun theoretische invalshoeken, onderzoeksmethoden, hun ethische overwegingen, persoonlijke inspiratie, visie op de Nederlandse en internationale criminologie, en de obstakels en dilemma’s die ze in hun carrière tegenkwamen. Aan het woord komen on...