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Professor Pamela Ugwudike

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University of Southampton

  1. Use tools as decision-making guides
  2. Ensure that processes are transparent
  3. Participate in regular training
Probation services can introduce measures that… will improve transparency and will also enhance trust in both the technologies and probation decision making more broadly

Biography

Pamela Ugwudike is Professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton, a Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the national Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

She has international expertise in multidisciplinary research on the ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, with a focus on the data-driven technologies (such as predictive algorithms and online social networking algorithms) that inform criminal justice policy and practice.

She is also a co-Editor-in-Chief of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Journal which is the flagship Journal of the British Society of Criminology and she currently sits on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology and the European Journal of Probation.

She was co-editor of both Evidence-Based Skills in Criminal Justice: International Research on Supporting Rehabilitation and Desistance (2018) and The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice (2020).

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