Algorithmic Domination and the Erosion of Criminal Justice Identity

Algorithmic Domination and the Erosion of Criminal Justice Identity

Towards Automated Social Control?

von Melina Anastasopoulou

Predictive AI systems are increasingly transforming criminal justice from a reactive system grounded in culpability and due process into a pre-emptive regime organised around risk calculation, surveillance, and algorithmic classification. This book develops a critical and interdisciplinary analysis of how predictive policing, algorithmic risk assessment, and data-driven governance reshape fundamental rights, democratic legitimacy, and the rule of law within constitutional democracies. Moving beyond reformist approaches centred on transparency and bias, it advances a normative response through the concepts of a right to freedom from algorithmic classification and the principle of anti-surveillance immunity against algorithmic domination.