Beyond Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-6170-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Sociodigital Futures

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Child welfare services are under increasing pressure to make faster decisions about families deemed “at risk.” Increasingly, the answer is algorithms that determine when and where interventions are made.

Drawing on case studies from England, New Zealand, Denmark and the Netherlands, this book asks what’s really being automated when a machine helps decide a child’s future, and what price is paid when crucial decisions are delegated to algorithms.

This is an urgent look at algorithmic power in one of the state’s most important decisions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Debbie

McQuillan, Dan

May Thomas, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• 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
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction - Debbie Watson, Dan McQuillan and Lisa May Thomas

Part I: The Problem with Algorithmic Prediction

2. AI in Social Care: Evidence, Efficacy, and the Politics of Adoption - Dan Bogiatzis-Gibbons

3. For the Good of the Child? Policy and Impact of Decision Support Algorithms Used on Children - Tess S. Skadegard Thorsen and Vedran Sekara

4. Think Family: Reproducing Inequalities Through Automated Decision Making - Debbie Watson and Lisa May Thomas

5. Gender Bias in Digital Welfare Fraud Investigation - Anna Dent

Part II: Hidden Voices in the ‘Machine’

6. Suspicious Minds: Data Tools and the Criminalisation of Children and Families - Val Gillies and Ros Edwards

7. “You Know It’s Nonsense, But it’s Kind of Attractive”: Frontline Experiences with AI Tools in Child Welfare - Imogen Parker and Laura Carter

8. Producing Critical Practitioners Through Interrogating the Algorithmic Lifepath - Emily Keddell

Part III: Who Do We Hold to Account: Resisting/Investigating Predictive Systems

9. Investigating Suspicion Machines: Lessons from Journalism on Holding Social Services Algorithms Accountable - Gabriel Geiger

10. An Enquiry Into the Philosophical Genealogy of Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare: The Illustrative Case of Street-based Youth Work and the Evolution of ‘At Risk-ism’ - Graeme Tiffany

11. AI and the Elimination of Care - Dan McQuillan

Conclusion - Debbie Watson, Dan McQuillan and Lisa May Thomas

Über Autor(innen)

McQuillan, Dan
Dan McQuillan is Lecturer in Creative and Social Computing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Watson, Debbie
Debbie Watson is Professor of Child and Family Welfare at the University of Bristol.

May Thomas, Lisa
Lisa May Thomas is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Sociodigital Futures, University of Bristol.

Debbie Watson is Professor of Child and Family Welfare at the University of Bristol.

Dan McQuillan is Lecturer in Creative and Social Computing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Lisa May Thomas is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Sociodigital Futures, University of Bristol.