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Roundtable: Novel Research Methods in Criminology

Thu, Nov 14, 5:00 to 6:20pm, Soma, Area 2, 2nd Level

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Technological development provides an opportunity for the social researcher to utilize data collection tools developed by market players (private sector). On the other hand, the task of social researchers is to produce results that can be utilized for the market, governments and policy makers. A good example of this is the predictive analytics softwares, which allows criminologists to calculate in advance the likelihood of offender recidivism (sex offender risk assessment and dynamic risk programs, or cyberdeviance self-risk assessment softwares: Parti et al., 2018) and to predict crime prevalence and patterns in residential areas with specific demographic, architectural and geographical characteristics (PredPol, CompStat: Sanders & Sheptycki, 2017). In turn, technological developments can be informative for criminology in anticipating future crime and victimization trends. Such prognosis can be utilized by criminologists to predict new types of criminality and victimization. Researchers and educators in criminology are invited to discuss the methodology they apply in the emerging field of social media and predictive analytics. The new and evolving opportunities that social media provides for qualitative research and blended research methodologies combining qualitative and quantitative methodology will be discussed. Moral and ethical challenges of the above described public private partnership will be addressed.

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