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SUMMARY:Public Guest Seminar - Influence Policing: Digital Nudges and ‘P
 olicing the Polycrisis’ in UK Preventative Law Enforcement  - With Dr Be
 n Collier\, School of Social &amp\; Political Scrience\, University of Edi
 nburgh
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CONTACT:R Greene
DESCRIPTION:To attend in-person\, please register here: https://www.ticket
 source.co.uk/booking/select/bUCWvlXrwjAk\n\nTo attend on-line\, please reg
 ister here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KoDByRx_QJyB_APga7O94Q#/re
 gistration\n \nAbstract\n\nIn a context of multiple overlapping crises\, n
 ovel and emerging forms of harm\, and the legacy of more than a decade of 
 austerity\, UK police forces are turning to an emerging mode of law enforc
 ement\, which we call influence policing. This uses the technologies of th
 e Internet platforms to conduct digital influence campaigns within the UK 
 in the name of crime prevention. These campaigns use sophisticated targeti
 ng of messages to directly ‘nudge’ behaviour and shape the culture of 
 particular groups. They began in counter-radicalisation as part of the UK
 ’s Prevent programme\, but have since moved into a range of other polici
 ng areas\, from online child abuse to domestic violence\, knife crime\, an
 d cybercrime. By targeting people based on the words they use on Twitter\,
  interests picked up from browsing and purchasing behaviour\, fine-detail 
 location\, or Google searches\, these police campaigns aim to use behaviou
 ral psychology to prevent crime. Examples include: adverts for drug counse
 lling services appearing on the mobile phones of young men from deprived a
 reas in their own dialect and accent when they walk near a hospital\; fear
 -based adverts from the UK Home Office using detailed behavioural profiles
  to deter asylum seekers in Calais from attempting a Channel crossing\; NC
 A nudge ads deterring children using Google to search for illegal services
 \; and counter-terror adverts displaying on the phones of people walking w
 ithin a set radius of high-security buildings\; among a wide range of othe
 rs. We discuss the ethical and theoretical implications of this new mode o
 f algorithmically-enabled policing using analysis of a dataset of more tha
 n 12\,000 adverts and in-depth fieldwork with Police Scotland’s dedicate
 d strategic communications team.\n\nA drinks reception for informal conver
 sation will take place in the basement common room for all who attend in p
 erson.\n
LOCATION:Seminar room\, Institute of Criminology Sidgwick Site
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