@rosamundevb
assistant prof criminology teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI/sociology of law @VUB research: digital & more-than-human criminology, surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
I feel like I have been posting the same results of stop and search research on UK police on social media for more than 10 years now. Will ethnic profiling finally be taken seriously now it’s research in collaboration with the Mayor’s office?
There was disproportionality in the rate at which Black Londoners were stopped and searched – and that the grounds used to justify stops and searches of Black Londoners were vaguer than those used for White Londoners. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”
#spring #Brussels
En op welke manier is dit positief voor de maatschappij?
Israeli attacks on four oil facilities in #Tehran this weekend have exposed millions of Iranians to harm.
In this post we explore the attacks and unpack their health and environmental consequences: ceobs.org/black-rain-t... 1/3 #IranIsreal #Iran #IntLaw
I have the same with David Lynch and quinoa :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-...
Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago fortune.com/2026/02/17/a...
”Another finding was that GDP can mask the full cost of climate damage by failing to account for deaths and ill health, social disruption and degraded ecosystems.”
#GDP #Growth
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How do you build up public trust in predictive policing if there is almost no scientific evidence that it works for crime prevention, but there are clear social and ethical consequences? Will the UK learn from what has happened in The Netherlands with CAS?
Very happy to see more attention for the #wolf in #criminology. Together with @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social we are preparing a chapter, which explores the 'othering' of the wolf in European cultural history & how this has shaped current criminalisation of the wolf in European societies! #morethanhuman
#spring #Leuven
“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."
Read every word.
Killing millions of foxes, crows, or ravens each year: "Ineffective and economically unjustifiable"
We describe the role of the #wolf as a prototypical criminal “enemy” of European and early American law, order, and civilization, the police obsession with the wolf as a mythical symbol of American indigeneity and a material threat to settler colonial order journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
”Feminist climate justice brings a gender lens to the fight against climate change, acknowledging how the drivers of the climate crisis are also the drivers of gender inequalities.”
Something to keep in mind on International Women’s Day.
#WomensDay
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Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...
This happened. The print interview was edited in ways that feel very jumpy, but I got to say some things. Like: Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war. [and then there's a crazy jump-cut w/out transition.]
thanks sorry we urgently need an edit function
Following the event we will also publish a policy brief and two podcasts and we also have several publications in the pipeline so do also look out for those in due course! /7
👏 Research for the project was conducted by stellar PhD-researchers Stephanie Garaglia (who also organized the whole event!) and Megan Leal Causton /6
It intended to identify the main promises and drivers behind official discourses of smart city programmes in relation to smart video surveillance in three Belgian cities: Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent. More info about the project can be found here: cris.research.vub.be/en/smart-vid... /5
The project led by Lucas Melgaço and myself at the Crime & Society Research Group (CRiS) aimed to analyse the discourses that surround the implementation of 'smart' video surveillance technologies, and their affordances in 'smart cities'. /4
The event will close with a stimulating debate moderated by Lucas Melgaço on possible futures and alternative socio-technical imaginaries with a stellar line-up of speakers: Marleen Easton, Jiska Engelbert and Katerina Hadjimatheou ⭐ /3
We also aim to brainstorm further about the implications of the results of the project and how these can inform policy and practice in a positive way. Very grateful that Brunilda Pali and @mehdighassemi.bsky.social will join me to lead the discussions at three thematic roundtables. /2
Thread: Extremely excited that tomorrow we will hold the final event of our Research Foundation Flanders - FWO project Smart Video Surveillance in Smart Cities: Deconstructing #Surveillance and Security Discourses. We have a great group of stakeholders and academics joining us /1
Hacked years ago, the cameras allowed Israel to map the city in detail, establish patterns of movement, and build an intricate, complex picture of what was happening inside an enemy capital, according to an Israeli official. #surveillance
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Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(
