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Hadjimatheou, Katerina (2016) Surveillance technologies, wrongful criminalisation, and the presumption of innocence. Philosophy & Technology . doi:10.1007/s13347-016-0218-2 ISSN 2210-5433.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13347-016-0218-2
Abstract
The potential of surveillance practices to undermine the presumption of innocence is a growing concern amongst critics of surveillance. This paper attempts to assess the impact of surveillance on the presumption of innocence. It defends an account of the presumption of innocence as a protection against wrongful criminalisation against alternatives, and considers both the ways in which surveillance might undermine that protection and the—hitherto overlooked—ways in which it might promote it. It draws on empirical work on the causes of erroneous convictions to suggest that surveillance can be used in ways that prevent innocent people being erroneously charged and convicted with crimes, by providing a source of exculpatory evidence for use in police investigations. It is argued that surveillance practices do not necessarily undermine the presumption of innocence but can be reformed in ways that both reduce the risk that they will cause wrongful criminalisation and increase their power to protect those already under suspicion.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare K Law [Moys] > KM Common Law, Public Law |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Judicial error, Presumption of innocence, Police patrol -- Surveillance operations , Closed-circuit television | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy & Technology | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2210-5433 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 20 April 2016 | ||||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s13347-016-0218-2 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 June 2016 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 June 2016 | ||||||||
| Funder: | Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7) | ||||||||
| Grant number: | 284725 |
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