AI in Justice Systems

Logics and Governance of Pre-Crime Technologies Across Twelve Jurisdictions
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5156-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book offers a clear and engaging account of how AI is reshaping justice systems around the world and why this matters for society. Examining predictive and surveillance technologies used in the UK and US alongside deployments in ten Sub-Saharan African countries, it moves beyond Western–centric debates. It draws on policy analysis to reveal how system focused logics produce weak AI governance frameworks that cannot sufficiently address human-centric challenges. Examples of such issues include AI bias, lack of transparency, risks posed by AI systems imported into African nations, and human rights concerns.

The book makes a compelling case for rethinking the regulation of AI systems deployed in high risk domains such as justice systems. It proposes a transformative, participatory and context-specific AI governance framework, and is aimed at researchers, students, policy makers, practitioners and civil society organisations alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ugwudike, Pamela

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten: Wissenschaft, Technologie, Medizin
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Foundations: Introducing Global Pre-Crime AI Systems

1. Introduction

2. Pre-crime AI technologies

Part 2: Privileging Reductive Logics and Governance of Pre-Crime AI

3. Logics of pre-crime AI systems

4. Modes of AI governance

Part 3: Sidelining Human-Centric Challenges of Pre-Crime AI

5. Bias in AI governance

6. Lack of transparency in AI governance

7. Human rights violations

8. Deprivation of human autonomy

Part 4: Future Directions: Envisioning Rights-Respecting AI Governance

9. Alternative AI governance frameworks

Über Autor(innen)

Ugwudike, Pamela
Pamela Ugwudike is Professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton, UK. She has international expertise in the ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, with a focus on the data-driven technologies informing criminal justice policy and practice. Professor Ugwudike has led interdisciplinary projects on the ethics of advanced predictive tools (2019-2021) and online social networking algorithms (2021-2025), with funding from the Alan Turing Institute (the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence) and the Economic and Social Research Council respectively. Her forthcoming books include “The Globalisation of Pre-Crime AI in Justice Systems: Logics, Challenges, and Governance” (Publisher: Bristol University Press 2026), and a “Handbook of Digital Technologies in Criminal Justice” to be published by Oxford University Press (2026). Professor Ugwudike is also co-Editor-in-Chief of Criminology and Criminal Justice Journal (the flagship Journal of the British Society of Criminology)

Pamela Ugwudike is Professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton. Her research explores the ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, with a focus on the data-driven technologies informing criminal justice policy and practice. Professor Ugwudike has led interdisciplinary projects on the ethics of advanced predictive tools (2019-2021) and online social networking algorithms (2021-2025), with funding from the Alan Turing Institute (the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence) and the Economic and Social Research Council respectively. Professor Ugwudike is also co-Editor-in-Chief of Criminology and Criminal Justice Journal, the flagship Journal of the British Society of Criminology.