This edited collection provides the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of automated decision-making, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithms, and how they can be used in criminal proceedings. Focusing on the experience in Central and Eastern European countries, the book offers a clear overview of the advantages and disadvantages of new technologies in criminal law.
After a primer on how AI can be used in law enforcement to enhance operational effectiveness and improve public safety, chapters offer a comprehensive look at the current status of the use of new technologies in the criminal law of the Central and Eastern European countries. When appropriate, contributors formulate concrete postulates for the change of the current legal regulations as well as offer advice on how to use such technologies to ones advantage or how to defend against their abuse by public authorities.
Navigating the intersection of technology and criminal justice, this book is invaluable for anyone with an interest in whether and how computers will shape the fate of criminal suspects and the operation of criminal justice systems. It is essential reading for scholars and students of comparative criminal justice, criminology, sociology, politics, and socio-legal studies.
This edited collection provides the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of automated decision-making, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithms, and how they can be used in criminal proceedings.
Part I
Foreword, Konrad Burdziak
Istvįn Ambrus
Part II
Violence Risk Assessment Algorithms in Criminal Justice
Melissa Hamilton
Part III. The Polish perspective
1. Sentencing with the use of algorithms in Polish criminal proceedings - an
analysis from the perspective of the basic principles of sentencing
Konrad Burdziak
2. Using algorithms in Polish criminal law useful tools or risk of bias
Magdalena Kowalewska-uku
3. Artificial intelligence algorithms in the context of cybersecurity. AI Act
and the national cybersecurity system opportunities and challenges for
social and economic development in the Republic of Poland
Dominika Skoczylas
Part IV. The Hungarian perspective
4. Using algorithms during the imposition of sanctions in Hungary
Istvįn Ambrus
5. Artificial Intelligence and contemporary questions from the aspect of
Hungarian Criminal Law
Mįté Hodula
6. Automated judicial decisions. Is it possible?
Noémi Komporday-Orosz
7. Regulating Law Enforcement Facial Recognition and Safeguarding Against
Misuse: European Union and Hungarian Perspectives
Kitti Mezei
Part V. The Czech perspective
8. The use of artificial intelligence by Police and courts with a focus on
Czech law
Lukį Bohuslav
9. Use of algorithms in securing electronic evidence in the Czech Republic
Radka ihulkovį
10. Algorithmic Automation in Criminal Proceedings: A General Discussion and
Czech Perspective
Daniel Oborįk
Part VI. The Slovak perspective
11. Perspectives of use of algorithms in criminal proceedings in Slovakia
Radovan Blaek
12. Using artificial intelligence in combatting cyber harassment and cyber
bullying
Lenka Miklóssyovį
13. Perspectives of using algorithms in assessing violent behaviour and
recidivism in convicts current state and future in Slovak prisons
Lucia Vasilik
Konrad Burdziak
Attorney at law, Assoc. prof., PhD, DSc in legal sciences (dr. habil.), certified suicidologist. A long-time employee of scientific and research institutions (University of Szczecin; Institute of Justice). He completed a 3-month research internship at the University of Tallinn (Estonia), where he carried out a research project funded by the Polish National Science Centre, and a 2-week query in the UK, where he carried out a research project funded by VisegradGrants. Author or co-author of several dozen scientific publications (including 8 scientific monographs) and more than 40 papers at national and international scientific conferences. Participates in Polish and international research projects (e.g. Polish-Hungarian Research Platform or the Algorithms used in the field of criminal sciences project financed by VisegradGrants). He is an expert at the Centre for Advanced Research on Integrity, Rights and Inclusion of the Child (Estonia). He specialises in criminal law, constitutional law, theory and philosophy of law. He collaborates with specialists from Poland and abroad.
