Mapping the future: horizon scanning for future crime
19 May 2021
Research summary
The discipline-based organisation within universities means that science and engineering developments tend to be taken forward with scant regard to their social consequences in general or crime and security consequences, in particular. Project 1 aims to mitigate the effect of these disciplinary silos by methodically scanning the science (physical, social and computer) and engineering literature, and looking across Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê departments for work on emergent technologies with implications for new crime threats and/or security opportunities.
We are also drawing on insights from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê’s socio-political and legal departments considering, for example, whether any of the selected new technologies might support or undermine existing social norms that promote compliance with the law, or whether crime reduction measures or new methods of policing/security enhancements might undermine international rights and safeguards, for example concerning privacy. Ìý
Lead Investigator(s) | |
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Research Assistant(s): | , doctoral student at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Security Science Centre for Doctoral Training (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê SECReT) , doctoral student at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Security Science Centre for Doctoral Training (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê SECReT) , doctoral student at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Security Science Centre for Doctoral Training (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê SECReT) |
For information about this project contact | Prof Shane Johnson |
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