Artificial Intelligence and Administration of Criminal Justi

Ondertitel: International Colloqium, Buenos Aires, Argentina 28th-31st March 2023

Taal: Engels

Aantal pagina's: 394

Contributors: Juliette Lelieur


Artificial Intelligence systems are used today in several parts of the world to support the administration of criminal justice. The most widespread example concerns “predictive policing”, which aims at foretelling crime before it happens and improving its detection. AI allows geospatial as well as person-based policing and is involved in preventing and uncovering economic crimes such as fraud and money laundering.
Especially in the context of crime mapping – or hot-spot analysis –, its efficiency has been questioned. As its compliance with human rights is also critically debated, some countries have renounced or ceased to rely on it. Another kind of general surveillance of human activity has however emerged with the performance of machine learning in facial recognition technology.
In contrast, the use of risk assessment tools based on AI by judicial authorities to forecast recidivism has remained limited to a few countries...