Report on the Academic Conference on Crime Control, Security and New Technologies1
| Author | Christian Thönnes |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/20322844221139570 |
| Published date | 01 December 2022 |
| Date | 01 December 2022 |
| Subject Matter | Analysis&Opinion |
Analysis&Opinion
New Journal of European Criminal Law
2022, Vol. 13(4) 387–390
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Report on the Academic
Conference on Crime Control,
Security and New
Technologies
1
Christian Th ¨
onnes
Public Law, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Abstract
From 29 to 30 August 2022, a diverse group of international researchers convened under the Arctic
northern lights in Tromsø. They set out to discuss some of the most pressing questions facing
European criminal and public security law. This scientific event was co-organised by the Research
Group on Crime Control and Security Law at The Arctic University of Norway under Nandor
Knust and Jon Petter Rui, and the Otto Hahn Research Group on Alternative and Informal Systems
of Crime Control and Criminal Justice at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security
and Law under Emmanouil Billis. As Emmanouil Billis and Nandor Knust noted in their opening
speech, the conference had set itself the goal of critically assessing how modern technologies, and
especially artificial intelligence (AI), can serve to strengthen the efficiency and effectiveness of crime
control and criminal justice systems, while at the same time complying with established ruleof-l aw
principles and human-rights standards. In my report, I summarize the conference’s main discursive
themes.
Keywords
Conference report, crime control, security law, new technologies, artificial intelligence
From 29 to 30 August 2022, a diverse group of international researchers convened under the Arctic
northern lights in Tromsø. They set out to discuss some of the most pressing questions facing
European criminal and public security law. This scientific event was co-organised by the Research
Group on Crime Control and Security Law at The Arctic University of Norway under Nandor Knust
and Jon Petter Rui, and the Otto Hahn Research Group on Alternative and Informal Systems of
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29-30 August 2022, UiT –The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø/Norway.
Corresponding author:
Christian Th¨
onnes, Public Law, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Günterstalstraße 73, Freiburg
im Breisgau 79100, Germany.
Email: c.thoennes@csl.mpg.de
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