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Week 10 Assignment – Technology in the Criminal Justice System

Overview

Read the following articles:

• Emerging Technology Trends and Their Impact on Criminal Justice.
• The Growing Role of Technology in the Criminal Justice Field.
• Technological Innovations in Crime Prevention and Policing: A Review of the Research on Implementation and Impact [PDF].
• Technology Firms Come Under Scrutiny for Ties to Law Enforcement.
• Great Promise but Potential for Peril: Ethical Concerns Mount as AI Takes Bigger Decision-Making Role in More Industries.

Then select one current technology in the criminal justice system. For ideas on current technologies, refer to the list below.

Current Technologies

• Surveillance technologies. (A list is maintained on the ACLU’s Surveillance Technologies page.)
• Facial recognition technology.
• Biometrics.
• Robots/drones.
• Shot-spotters.
• Thermal imaging cameras.
• AI/predictive policing.
• Automatic license plate recognition.
• Body cameras.

Write a 2–3 page paper in which you:

• Describe the technology, its purpose, how it works, and when it would be used.
• Discuss the ethical and privacy issues around the technology.
• What impacts might this have on the future if the ethical and privacy issues are not resolved?