algorithms and, importantly, the basic structures of decision theory that it embeds. To make a problem amenable to algorithmic … application. We use decision theory, including behavioural economics, to highlight the choices embedded within this problem space … lockstep advancement in awareness and application of decision theory. Such awareness may help to mitigate some of the …

opportunities. Police observes information about citizens' types and allocates search efforts to catch citizens who commit crimes. I … show that the police who has full information about citizens may fail to deter any crimes. An information structure that … minimizes crime rate provides the police with information about citizens who face low returns to crime without identifying …

This chapter focuses upon machine learning algorithms within police decision-making in England and Wales, specifically … tools underpinned by machine learning to aid police decision-making, and notes the impact of austerity as a driver for the … protection common law duties and functions of the police, a broad and imprecise legal base that the ECtHR in Catt found less than …

system currently derives crime predictions and extrapolates from these methods how technology might one day allow police to …