True Crime Tuesday - There is Justice in Data

Im Anschluss freuen wir uns darauf, mit Ihnen den Abend bei einem gemütlichen Get-Together ausklingen zu lassen.

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Our lives are increasingly complex and interconnected. Technology also continues to grow as an integral part of our understanding of the world around us. Our ability to understand what is happening, and what needs to happen in our lives, in our cities, and in our countries demands we have the proper information and know how to process it and understand it. In the justice system, what once may have been able to be addressed by one or a small number of inquisitive people focusing on a particular crime or issue, now takes large amounts of diverse data and information to understand and even more address.

This talk will explore the data and types of information necessary to understand the world around us in both our personal and professional lives. It will look at different kinds of data and data sources, such as: the demographics of the people who live in a city, very detailed information about where crime and violence occur, data on the justice process for those who commit deviant/criminal acts, and the increasing importance of digital forensic analyses.

Jeff Walker is a Professor and the J. Frank Barefield, Jr. Endowed Chair of Communities and Crime at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. In this capacity, he works with and conducts research with researchers in physical forensics (chemistry such as gunshot residue and biology such as DNA analyses) and digital forensics (such as credit card fraud, gang violence, and terrorism). Prior to this position, Dr. Walker served as a Special Agent in the US military specializing as a computer forensic examiner in major felony crime investigations. He is currently working on blending physical and digital forensics and the study of law and justice into a Crime Science program at his university.