Report on the Academic Conference on Crime Control, Security and New Technologies1

Abstract

From 29 to 30 August 2022, a diverse group of international researchers convened under the Arctic northern lights in Tromsø. They set out to discuss some of the most pressing questions facing European criminal and public security law. This scientific event was co-organised by the Research Group on Crime Control and Security Law at The Arctic University of Norway under Nandor Knust and Jon Petter Rui, and the Otto Hahn Research Group on Alternative and Informal Systems of Crime Control and Criminal Justice at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law under Emmanouil Billis. As Emmanouil Billis and Nandor Knust noted in their opening speech, the conference had set itself the goal of critically assessing how modern technologies, and especially artificial intelligence (AI), can serve to strengthen the efficiency and effectiveness of crime control and criminal justice systems, while at the same time complying with established ruleof-law principles and human-rights standards. In my report, I summarize the conference’s main discursive themes.