
Episode #27
Future Trajectories and the Emerging Technologies Reshaping Criminal Justice
Criminal justice systems face transformation through emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, biometric surveillance, and genetic analysis, creating both public safety opportunities and profound civil liberties risks. This episode examines how predictive algorithms increasingly guide criminal justice decisions including bail, sentencing, and parole, despite limitations in accuracy and potential for bias amplification. We analyze how facial recognition technology enables mass surveillance while producing false identifications that have led to wrongful arrests. The discussion includes how genetic genealogy has enabled cold case investigations while raising questions about privacy rights and familial DNA searches. We examine how artificial intelligence applications in criminal justice...


