The video showcases current and former researchers at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law who in various ways work with digital criminology. The video alternates between showing keywords and the researchers who are speaking.
Silje Anderdal Bakken:
– AI, algorithms, big data, social media, robots, big tech companies, platforms, gadgets and devices. So many developments change our societies and with that everything criminologists are interested in.
Mareile Kaufmann:
– Digital technologies influence already existing forms of crime but they also create new ones.
Silje Anderdal Bakken:
– The police use new tools to investigate and control crime, but that is also true for the entire legal system. Courtrooms and prisons also need to relate to new realities and technologies. We can also be victimized in new ways, for example via ID theft, fake news, and we can also be abused digitally.
Mareile Kaufmann:
– Criminologists need to be able to analyze this. Our fields of study change fast, but these changes also influence important societal structures and values. They confront us with questions about power, democracy, governance, control, legitimacy, and knowledge creation. For us, studying digitalization involves past, present, and future tech developments, online and offline realities, low and high technology, but it's also important for us to understand how humans are central to digital and technological practices. Many of these aspects are hidden in complex systems, which is why it's our task to take a closer look and study digitalization from different perspectives.
Jan Christoffer Andersen:
– The internet offers young boys and men a platform to express frustration about loneliness, dating and the male role. I look at incels to understand the role online spaces play when it comes to venting anger, thinking about suicide and potential violence.
Silje Anderdal Bakken:
– Online communication platforms like social media apps and the dark net facilitate illegal drug selling. These new forms of marketing change foundational social factors like how sellers and buyers perceive risk.
Solveig Laugerud:
– Digitalization also leads to new forms of sexual harm. See that nudes or semi-nude pictures are shared without consent. These can also be fake nudes that become more of a problem with deepfake technologies. How do people involved understand these issues and how do they respond?
Heidi Mork Lomell:
– I'm interested in history and especially the beginning of the so-called digital age, that is the 1950s and 60s. What visions did the police and others have about digital technology? What did they envision digital technology could do? And how did they think it could help the police?
Camilla Løvschall Langeland:
– Today, the police routinely use digital tools to make analysis on crime trends and potential threats. I'm interested in understanding the information and knowledge that underlines these analysis.
Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus:
– Being able to take decisions based on given information is crucial for understanding injustice and securing justice. I'm interested in how this is affected by the rise of digital data and software to analyze these.
Maja Vestad:
– The police rely on digital tools to turn forensic traces into evidence when they investigate crime. I look at challenges related to that.
Mareile Kaufmann:
– More and more of our genomic data is stored and analyzed for surveillance purposes. Who can access this data? How is our DNA analyzed? And what for?
Stefano Mazzilli Daechsel:
– Do biotechnologies change how we think about biological and digital information? What are the ethical challenges of using such data?
Thea Myrvang:
– Digitalization, for example AI, is increasingly shaping the development of courts. I'm interested in how these changes influence the judiciary and the work life of judges.
Katja Franko:
– How does digitalization impact the nature and understanding of expertise within criminal justice and the epistemic power of particular actors?
Rose Elisabeth Lunde:
– Digital technologies affect the daily lives of people in prison and the work of prison staff. Internet access in prison is still restricted. We see that this creates difficulties for people in prison to manage their lives upon release. How do prison staff work around these issues?
Marina Hiller Foshaugen:
– What is the meaning of a one-star review of a prison on Google Maps? I look at how people express their relationship to crime and control online.
Mareile Kaufmann:
– Take these as inspirations for the many projects that still need to be done.
Silje Anderdal Bakken:
– Check our website to find out more about digital criminology, our research projects, and how we include technologies in our studies.