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AbstractThe article discusses different examples of data-driven policing, its legal provisions and effects on a society's understanding of public security. It distinguishes between (a) the collection of classical data such as fingerprints or DNA, which serve to identify suspects and to collect evidence, (b) the processes and the impetus of big data, and (c) the networking of files from different security authorities. Discussing systematic forecasting tools, the article works out a significant difference between the prediction of incidents such as home burglary in the case of predictive policing, and the identification of individuals deemed to be at risk of involvement in various forms of crime in the case of risk control programs. Data and personality protection are interrelated issues.

"In den Krisen- und Kriegsgebieten der Welt sind seit den 1980er Jahren immer wieder Gewaltökonomien entstanden. Sie basieren auf der Ausbeutung von Naturressourcen (wie Öl, Diamanten oder Tropenholz) durch Konfliktparteien, sie sind mit den bekannten Formen internationaler Kriminalität (wie Drogen-, Menschen- und Waffenhandel) verbunden und sie können ohne die Einbindung in ein verzweigtes Netz transnationaler Wirtschaftskriminalität nicht funktionieren. Menschenrechtsverletzungen sind ein konstitutiver Bestandteil der Gewaltökonomien. Die Antworten des internationalen Strafrechts auf diese komplexe Konstellation müssen noch weiterentwickelt werden." (Autorenreferat)

Abstract: The article addresses problems of ethnic and foreign minorities in the criminal justice system in the Federal Republic of Germany. Analysis of police and court data suggests at first glance that members of foreign minorities commit far more crimes than are committed by the population's majority. But controlling for differences in those variables which make considerable differences between foreign minorities and the population's majority, especially socio‐economic status, differences in crime rates fade away. It is argued that cultural conflict theory does not provide an adequate framework for explaining crime occurring within foreign minorities. Available evidence suggests that deprivation and control theories are more powerful in explaining criminal behaviour within ethnic and foreign minorities, they seem also to he more useful in guiding criminal policy dealing with foreign offenders. Although crime problems have been of paramount importance in criminological studies dealing with ethnic and foreign minorities, problems of criminal victimisation should be taken into account, too. Furthermore, problems of processing members of ethnic minorities through the criminal justice system are touched on in the article with special emphasis on those points in the process which are hypothesised to embody great potential for discriminatory decision‐making