Algorithms, policing, and race: insights from decolonial and critical algorithm studies
Algorithms, policing, and race: insights from decolonial and critical algorithm studies
This chapter draws on decolonial and critical algorithm studies to analyze the racial dynamics of predictive policing algorithms. Insights from both fields suggest that, although the algorithms appear to reflect liberal race-neutral logics of objectivity and scientific neutrality, remedial strategies are required to address the risk of exclusionary design processes that can foment essentialist perceptions of a link between race and crime risks. In exploring these issues, the paper advances the extant literature on the societal impact of data-driven predictive algorithms deployed by justice systems.
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Ugwudike, Pamela
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3 July 2023
Ugwudike, Pamela
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Ugwudike, Pamela
(2023)
Algorithms, policing, and race: insights from decolonial and critical algorithm studies.
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Cunneen, Chris, Deckert, Antje, Porter, Amanda, Tauri, Juan and Webb, Robert
(eds.)
The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice.
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Taylor & Francis, .
(doi:10.4324/9781003176619-16).
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This chapter draws on decolonial and critical algorithm studies to analyze the racial dynamics of predictive policing algorithms. Insights from both fields suggest that, although the algorithms appear to reflect liberal race-neutral logics of objectivity and scientific neutrality, remedial strategies are required to address the risk of exclusionary design processes that can foment essentialist perceptions of a link between race and crime risks. In exploring these issues, the paper advances the extant literature on the societal impact of data-driven predictive algorithms deployed by justice systems.
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