1st Edition

Socially Responsible Innovation in Security Critical Reflections

156 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the possibility of socially responsible innovation in security, using an interdisciplinary approach. Responsible innovation in security refers to a comprehensive approach that aims to integrate knowledge related to stakeholders operating at both the demand and the supply side of security – technologists, citizens, policymakers and ethicists. Security innovations can only be... Read more

Introduction: Responsible Innovation in Security Setting the Scene

1. Danger, Innovation, Responsibility: Imagining Future Security, J. Peter Burgess

PART I: Security Technology

2. Promoting Responsible Research and Innovation in Data-intensive Technologies: A Societal Impact Framework, Gemma Galdon

3. Drones – Dull, Dirty or Dangerous? The Social Construction of Privacy and Security Technologies, Marc van Lieshout and Michael Friedewald

PART II: Public Perception and Acceptance

4. The Influence of Technological Innovations on Theft Prevention: Perspectives of Citizens and Experts, Kim Van Hoorde, Evelien De Pauw, Hans Vermeersch and Wim Hardyns

5. When It Rains in Paris, It Drizzles in Brussels?, Hans Vermeersch, Ellen Vandenbogaerde and Evelien De Pauw

PART III: Public and Private Decision Making

6. Securitization by Regulation? The Flemish Mayor as Democratic Anchor of Local Security Policies, Tom Bauwens

7. Raising the Flag: The State Effects of Public and Private Security Providers at East Jerusalem’s National Parks, Lior Volinz

PART IV: Democratic Control and Ethical Implications

8. Evaluation and Effectiveness of Counter-Terrorism, Fiona de Londras

9. The Bleak Rituals of Progress; or, If Somebody Offers You a Socially Responsible Innovation in Security, Just Say No, Mark Neocleous

Biography

J. Peter Burgess is Professor and Chair of Geopolitics of Risk at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, France, and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST) at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Genserik Reniers is a Full Professor at the Engineering Management Department of the University of Antwerp in Belgium, and at the Safety and Security Science Section of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Koen Ponnet is an Assistant Professor at IMEC-MICT, Ghent University, Belgium.

Wim Hardyns is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP) in the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law, Ghent University, Belgium.

Wim Smit is a former army chaplain at the Belgian army, and the Director-General of Wereld Missie Hulp, a Flemish development organization.