Algorithmic Domination and the Erosion of Criminal Justice Identity: Towards Automated Social Control?

Dr. Melina Anastasopoulou

doi:10.5771/9783748969402

Summary

Predictive AI systems are increasingly transforming criminal justice from a reactive system grounded in culpability and due process into a pre-emptive regime organised around risk calculation, surveillance, and algorithmic classification. This book develops a critical and interdisciplinary analysis of how predictive policing, algorithmic risk assessment, and data-driven governance reshape fundamental rights, democratic legitimacy, and the rule of law within constitutional democracies. Moving beyond reformist approaches centred on transparency and bias, it advances a normative response through the concepts of a right to freedom from algorithmic classification and the principle of anti-surveillance immunity against algorithmic domination.

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Edition: 1/2026
Copyright Year: 2026
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7560-3916-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-6940-2
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Luxemburger Juristische Studien - Luxembourg Legal Studies
Volume: 29
Language: English
Pages: 301
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Acknowdelegement No access
3. List of Abbreviations No access
1. A. Theoretical and Conceptual Background No access
2. B. Aim and Scope No access
3. C. Analytical Approach No access
4. D. Structure of the Book No access
1. A. Introductory Remarks No access
2. 1. I. The Emerging Focus of Pre-Crime and the Crisis of Criminal Justice No access
  2. II. Theoretical Legitimations of Pre-emptive Criminal law: Revisiting the Dangerous Logic of Enemy Criminal Law No access
  3. 1. 1. The Threat of Terrorism as Catalyst for the Pre-emptive Turn No access
    2. 2. Big Data, AI, and the Construction of Predictive Criminal Justice No access
3. 1. 1. 1. The merge between External and Internal Security. No access
    2. 2. Blurring Intelligence and Policing: Data Revolution and Normalisation of the Widespread Data Collection No access
  2. 1. 1. Emotional Facial Recognition: Emotion Detection and Facial Recognition: The New Affective Surveillance No access
    2. 2. Surveillance Eye in the Sky: Expanding the Visual Architecture of Control No access
  3. 1. 1. Decision Making and the Law under Uncertainty No access
    2. 2. The Precautionary Principle in Criminal Law: Use of Criminal Law to Social Control? No access
4. 1. I. Principle of Legality: Criminalisation of Undesirable Behaviours? No access
  2. II. Right to Liberty and Security, Article 5 of the ECHR No access
  3. 1. 1. Presumption of Guilt No access
    2. 2. Right to confrontation and right to examine a witness in the digital age No access
    3. 3. The Right to Remain Silent...Unless Guilt is Algorithmically Reconstructed No access
  4. IV. Right to Respect for Private and Family Life and New technologies: Two Incompatible Realities? Article 8 ECHR No access
  5. V. Prohibition of Discrimination: Bias in, Bias out. Article 14 ECHR No access
1. A. Introductory Remarks No access
2. 1. I. Artificial Intelligence as a Governance Tool: Expansion of Surveillance and Secrecy No access
  2. II. The Move Towards Algorithmic Governance No access
  3. 1. 1. The Introduction of New Evidentiary Challenges in the Criminal Justice System No access
    2. 2. Beyond Transparency: The Right to Contest AI? No access
  4. IV. Rule of Law or the Code Rules? No access
  5. V. Algorithmic Justice in the Profiling Era: Governing the “Others” No access
3. 1. I. Algocracy and Algorithmic Reasoning: Data-Driven Analytics and New Practice of Knowledge Creation No access
  2. II. Predictive Policing and Actuarial Risk Assessments No access
4. 1. 1. 1. The Apocalypse of Deepfakes No access
    2. 2. Deepfakes and Political Implications No access
  2. 1. 1. Deepfakes in Crime Control and Criminal Justice No access
    2. 2. When Deepfakes meet Generative AI: Criminal Justice in a Generative AI Reality No access
5. 1. I. Intentional Opacity: From Corporate Secrecy to "Confidentiality Creep" No access
  2. II. Public Scrutiny as a Democratic Imperative No access
1. A. Introductory Remarks No access
2. 1. I. Deconstructing the Dominance Discourse on Digital Sovereignty: From Control to Individual Autonomy and Freedom No access
  2. 1. 1. A right to Freedom from Algorithmic Classification No access
    2. 2. Principle of Anti-Surveillance Immunity: A way to Preserve Autonomy in Algorithmic Society No access
3. 1. I. Algorithmic Surveillance Capitalism and the Individual: The Digital Empires and the Imbalance of Power No access
  2. 1. 1.The Managerial Turn: How Risk Regulation Redefines Law in the Age of AI No access
    2. 2. Artificial Intelligence Act as a Market-Driven Instrument: A Critical Appraisal of Risk, Standards, and Fundamental Rights No access
    3. 3. The Hidden Threats to Criminal Justice Orientation and Fundamental Rights: Persistent Gaps and Emerging Challenges No access
4. 1. I. From Political Arithmetic to Statistics No access
  2. II. The Scientific Pursuit of Predicting Criminality No access
  3. III. Neuroprediction and AI: The New Face of Predictive Rationality and Its Normative Blind Spots No access
5. 1. I. Evading Responsibility: The Erosion of Accountability? No access
  2. II. Prediction of “Dangerous” Individuals or Groups and Disruption of Procedural Fairness No access
  3. III. Distorting the Conception of What Justice is: Visualising Justice and Punishment through the Lens of Probabilities? No access
6. 1. I. Freedom in the Age of Algocracy No access
  2. II. Respect of Individual Autonomy and the Right to an Individual Treatment No access
7. 1. I. Civil Society and Activism in Policy Formation: Theoretical Foundation of Democratic Engagement No access
  2. II. Beyond Code: From Grassroots to Influencing Digital Policy No access
Conclusion No access Pages 247 - 254
References No access Pages 255 - 300