Policing and Intelligence in the Global Big Data Era, Volume I, the first of a two volume set, presents a rich and unique collection of global perspectives on data-driven predictive technologies and the expansion and use of surveillance apparatuses in policing and intelligence, both public and private. Centered around the notion of ‘algorithmic governance’, this volume explores various practices of abstract and intelligence-led policing within the context of surveillance and regulatory capitalism. Each chapter interrogates these concepts as much as realities on the ground as they play out across the globe – from Russia, USA, India, Brazil to Denmark, Germany and Norway. The volume offers a unique insight into the ways in which technologies and data-driven practices – from facial recognition, predictive algorithms, to generative AI – are reshaping cultures of policing both within and beyond police proper. Particular attention is paid to the simultaneous privatization and pluralization policing and intelligence and to the proliferation of new intelligence actors. Academics, students and readers interested in the fields of criminology, social anthropology, critical algorithm

Tereza Østbø Kuldova is a social anthropologist and Research Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. She is the author of, among others, Luxury and Corruption: Challenging the Anti-Corruption Consensus (co-authored with Jardar Østbø and Thomas Raymen, Bristol University Press, 2024), Compliance-Industrial Complex: The Operating System of a Pre-Crime Society (Palgrave, 2022), How Outlaws Win Friends and Influence People (Palgrave, 2019).

Helene O. I. Gundhus is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Professor II at the Norwegian Police University College. She has published on issues to do with police methods and technology, police professionalism, crime prevention, risk assessments, migration control and transnational policing.

Christin Thea Wathne is Research Director and Research Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Her research interests include leadership and management, New Public Management, organizational development, organizational learning, professions, social identity and working environment and mastering.