crime

Lifting: a weapon against capitalism or boredom?

Article

Lea Goeron

04/12/2018

11 minutes to read

The lifting community on Tumblr keeps growing and growing. Calling themselves lifters, they take over a controversial niche on the quirky and queer website. They're bragging about stolen goods online, gain followers, likes and reshares.

Should big data determine who gets pulled over?

Column

Paul Mutsaers

05/09/2017

4 minutes to read

Predictive policing is often claimed to be a technical matter superior to traditional policing, with all its human flaws. I argue for a cultural approach to predictive policing, centered on the cultural shaping of police technologies.