Technology Quarterly | I know what you’ll do next summer
Increased amounts of data and surveillance are transforming justice systems
The relationship between information and crime has changed
ON WHAT does the administration of justice depend? Devotees of the Old Testament might say wisdom, as displayed in King Solomon’s judgment. Others might say a dispassionate objectivity. It also requires the threat of punishment—the basis of the modern state’s coercive power to enforce laws. But John Fielding knew that, before administrators of justice could mete out punishment or exercise wisdom, they needed something else: information.
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