My latest paper has now been published as part of a new edited collection on "Policing and Intelligence in the Global Big Data Era." The chapter, entitled "Data Quality in Police Work" engages the question what the concept of data quality means in police practice, how it can be studied, and explores its implications. Part …
New publication
In a new German-language article entitled "Vom Sachverhalt zum Datengehalt: Polizeiliche Rapportierungspraxis zwischen Einzelfall und Aggregatebene", Jonas Hagmann and I explore how digitization affects frontline police work vis-à-vis increasing analytical use cases for data. Published in the Kriminologisches Journal and based on empirical research, the article explicates the creative practices that frontline officers use to …
New publication
My chapter on "AI and interoperability" has now been published as part of the Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence. The chapter discusses the concept of interoperability through the example of European databases for security and migration, and with a particular focus on the role of artificial intelligence in making things work together.
New publication
My latest article, entitled "Politics of creep: Latent development, technology monitoring, and the evolution of the Schengen Information System", has now been published as open access online first version in the European Journal of International Security. In the article, Vanessa Ugolini and I empirically reconstruct the techno-politics that have set up the transformation of the …
Kick-off DATAMIG
The DATAMIG Cost Action was successfully kicked-off by the first Management Committee Meeting. Over the next four years, DATAMIG will enable and facilitate collaboration between researchers working on questions of technology and data in migration and migration governance.
First CURATE Report available
The first Report from the CURATE Project is now available. It presents findings from survey research on data quality and related institutional arrangements and processes, carried out between January and February 2023 among 65 national-level law enforcement and border control organizations in the European Union/Schengen area. Overall, findings suggest growing awareness of data quality issues …
New publication
This new book chapter, entitled "Security technologies and criticality", engages the ambiguous relations between a critical research attitude and the complex socio-technical formations that we tend to encounter in the field. Through the use of the concept of "critical intimacy", the chapter argues that there is a middle ground between the extreme positions of "proximity" …
New publication
My latest article, entitled "Staying in control: predictive policing, democracy, and digital sovereignty", has now been published as online first version in Democratization. Based on empirical data from research on predictive policing, the paper asks how state actors internally deal with the challenges that digital technologies present for democratic principles. The analysis highlights how, based …
ISA IPS Chair
After having acted as the ISA International Political Sociology (IPS) Section's Program Chair for the 2023 conference in Montréal, per the by-laws of the Section I have now rotated into the role of Section Chair. Nadine Voelkner has been elected as the IPS Program Chair for next year's ISA conference in San Francisco.
New publication
In a new article, entitled "Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control" and published in Big Data & Society, Silvan Pollozek and I empirically investigate the temporal implications of data in law enforcement and border control. Based on the analysis of the Frontex JORA system for information management as well as …
Matthias Leese 