Future Policing

Technology and Transformation
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-13748-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Series on Practical and Evidence-Based Policing

Future Policing: Technology and Transformation examines how technologies such as facial recognition, quantum computing, virtual reality, data integration, artificial intelligence, robot cops, electrocardiograms, predictive policing, and investigative genetic genealogy are transforming the practice and governance of contemporary law enforcement.

Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars from eight countries, this twenty-chapter volume offers empirically grounded analyses of how technologies are adopted, implemented, regulated, and experienced in practice. Chapters synthesize research evidence, operational experience, and theoretical debate to evaluate claims of efficiency, objectivity, and innovation, while identifying the social, legal, and ethical consequences that accompany digital transformation. At a critical moment when police agencies are investing heavily in technological solutions while navigating a fast-moving landscape of evolving tools, claims, and expectations, this volume provides a much-needed evidence base for understanding what these systems change in practice and what outcomes they realistically produce. And by bringing sustained critical investigation and scrutiny to rapidly institutionalizing tools, the collection establishes a foundation for the next generation of policing scholarship.

Rigorous and accessible, Future Policing provides students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, among others, with the insight required to critically assess technological change and understand how innovation is reshaping what policing is, how it is done, and whom it serves.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huey, Laura

Ferguson, Lorna

Adams, Ian T.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Rechtsmedizin, Forensik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Future Is Now: Introduction to Policing and Technology 2. Algorithmic Policing: Risks and Benefits of Artificial Intelligence 3. Humanoid Robots in Policing: Officer Perspectives on Operational Use 4. Artificial Intelligence in US Law Enforcement: A Systematic Review 5. Cross-Agency Data Integration for Dementia Safety 6. Next-Generation Law Enforcement Technologies: Strategic and Ethical Issues 7. Police Perspectives on Generative Artificial Intelligence and Public Security Threats 8. Cybercrime and Cybersecurity in Modern Policing 9. Police Performance Evaluation Using EEG and Neuroscience 10. Predictive Policing Futures: Laplace’s Officer 11. Artificial Intelligence and Suspect Identification 12. Police Misinformation and Public Trust 13. Police Counterintelligence and Insider Threat Prevention 14. Artificial Intelligence and Police Performance Measurement 15. Measuring Physiological Stress in Virtual Reality Police Training 16. The Future of Police Surveillance and Cameras 17. Co-Creation and Community Engagement in Predictive Policing 18. Large Language Models in Policing: Research and Practice Lessons 19. Investigative Genetic Genealogy and the Future of Cold Cases 20. Facial Recognition in US Policing: Crime Control, Officer Safety, and Racial Equity

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Huey is a Professor of Sociology at Western University, Editor of Police Practice & Research, Editor of Evidence Base, a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), and a member of the Canadian Council of Academies’ expert panels on Cybercrime and Policing. Her current research focuses on public order policing, critical incident response, police downloading, policing and mental health and missing persons.

Lorna Ferguson is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Regina, the Founder of the Missing Persons Research Hub, and the Senior Managing Editor for Evidence Base. Dr. Ferguson’s specialization is police responses to missing persons. Her broader research program extends to related areas of policing, including incident command, evidence-based policing, technology and innovation, police data and intelligence, cybercrime, responses involving persons with mental illness, and police reform.

Ian T. Adams is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina, where he is a 2025 McCausland Faculty Fellow in recognition of excellence in research and teaching. He has been involved in law enforcement and policing for over 20 years as an officer, a labour executive, and a scholar. Dr. Adams' research addresses practical police concerns, focusing on technology, policy, and behaviour. He is a leading academic voice in the ongoing development of evidence-based practices in policing.