Data-driven policing: how digital technologies transform the practice and governance of policing
Journal: Open Access at Essex (University of Essex)
Year: 2021

Adoption of advanced digital technology is one of the most controversial and fundamental transformations in contemporary police practice. Despite its significance, empirical enquiry of these technologies, and the way they shape and are shaped by policing environments is rare. Drawing on in-depth interviews with officers in a UK police force and ethnographic fieldwork in a large metropolitan police department in the US, this thesis aims to make a significant empirical and conceptual contribution