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Smart criminal justice: exploring the use of algorithms in the Swiss criminal justice system

criminal justice system. We find that the Swiss criminal justice system is already significantly shaped by algorithms, a change motivated by political expectations and demands for efficiency. Until now ... widely used in the process of identifying dangerous individuals. 4.1.2.1 Motives Regarding the motives for implementing algorithmic risk assessment instruments, respondents unanimously referenced political

Political Parties, Elections and Election Systems by Etem Aziri

differences between them. Classification of political parties according to the author, can be based on different criteria ranging from philosophy and political, to the political programs of up to parliamentary ... treatment of political parties as a global phenomenon. In 2004 published the book "Political parties and democracy", while two years "Sociology of political parties" - in modified version. This book differs

Mīmāṃsā deontic reasoning using specificity: a proof theoretic approach

results, and investigate the potential use of the resulting system for Mīmāṃsā philosophy and, more generally, for the formal interpretation of normative statements. ... fundamental schools of Indian philosophy, and the only one centered on deontic concepts. In order to read the Vedas not as a religious text, but as a set of precepts, and to explain “what has to be done” in

Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography by Daniel Tanguay

The book ends with concluding remarks of the writer about the whole Leo Strauss’s thought. Although Leo Strauss’s philosophy is very complex especially in terms of so many different titles and ... twentieth century political philosophy but also enable to us with critical outlook about modern political philosophy and its problems. Apart from Introduction, the book consists of four main titles about Leo

Mapping the Issues of Automated Legal Systems: Why Worry About Automatically Processable Regulation?

reflects a political compromise among dif‑ ferent stakeholders. Neither the law nor APR are neutral. Rather, law is “contingent on the circumstances of the time” and “imbued with normative assumptions and ... “public, nonvio‑ lent, conscientious yet political act contrary to the law usually done with the aim of bringing about a change in the law or policies of the government” (Rawls 1991) . And yet, this might

Preserving the rule of law in the era of artificial intelligence (AI)

-book’, this being related to substantive justice. The rights conception assumes that people have moral rights and duties with respect to one another and political rights against the state. These moral ... (OSCE), Rule of law, Rule of law | OSCE (Accessed 11 June 2021). 6 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Rule of Law, available at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ rule-of-law/ (Accessed 20 December

Decision support for detecting sensitive text in government records

detection of biased language (Sheng et al. 2019) and distinguishing descriptions of criminal incidents (which might include personal details of victims or unsubstantiated accusations) from political events

Do androids dream of normative endorsement? On the fallibility of artificial moral agents

have even claimed that one of the aims of AI development should be to build morally praiseworthy agents. From the perspective of moral philosophy, praiseworthy moral agents, in any meaningful sense of ... ring to it that can work well in the context of political campaigning or public relations, it is worthwhile to analyse it more thoroughly to reveal some of the issues and challenges that come with this

On computable numbers with an application to the AlanTuringproblem

Entscheidungsproblem.’ Drawing upon the legal, social, and political context of Alan Turing’s own involvement with the law following his arrest in 1952 for the criminal offence of gross indecency, the article explores ... high-water mark in terms of the political, legal and social factors that opposed homosexual behaviour. It was in 1885 that homosexuality was first criminalised. Earlier common law and and legislation had

Albanian Book and Libraries in Kosovo

in Kosovo by the 14th century was followed with a long interruption due to socio-political circumstances. The linguistic structure of the book in libraries by the middle of the sixties of the 20th ... the political and cultural position of Albanians was also reflected in view of the growing number of publications in Albanian and network extension of libraries also changing their cultural status. In

Two factor-based models of precedential constraint: a comparison and proposal

Sartor (1996; 1998). In many respects, the significance of legal argument to formal accounts of non-monotonic reasoning is unsurprising. After all, through the work of Hart (1949) , legal philosophy is ... strength is improper. Indeed, in practical philosophy, Raz’s (1975 ) idea of an exclusionary reason is motivated by the desire to capture the sense in which certain reasons are defeated by considerations

Going beyond the “common suspects”: to be presumed innocent in the era of algorithms, big data and artificial intelligence

evidence’ has started being used widely in both political statements and legal texts.16 Yet, there is still no common understanding on its meaning (Buono 2019, p. 308; Vazquez Maymir 2020, p. 3; Gless 2020 ... scrutiny (cf. Završnik 2021, p.633). Or, as Green (2018) argues, this is a ‘political exercise that involves making normative judgments about the tradeoffs between reducing incarcenation and reducing crime

A Bayesian model of legal syllogistic reasoning

said that the syllogism is but one type of argument that can apply to computational models of legal argumentation. The notion of argumen‑ tation in social sciences (e.g., philosophy) refers to the

Encoding legislation: a methodology for enhancing technical validation, legal alignment and interdisciplinarity

beyond the statute, borne from what may be a conflicted, fraught political arena” (Sanson 2016, p.10) . The copyright experiment is no exception. As previously mentioned, despite technical coding ... architecture for decision support systems . Artif Intell Law 26 ( 4 ): 315 - 344 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-018-9218-0 Jones ML ( 2017 ) The right to a human in the loop: political constructions of

Analogical lightweight ontology of EU criminal procedural rights in judicial cooperation

multidisciplinary thesaurus managed and updated by the Publications Office of the European Union. Its purpose is to index the legal and political documents issued by European Union institutions to facilitate their ... Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations) which were referred to in the directives themselves. The latter

Correction to: A review of predictive policing from the perspective of fairness

Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida , Gainesville, FL , USA In the original publication of this article the funding information was missed to publish and the

Issues and Trends in the Provision of Public Library Services in Nigeria: A Literature Survey

The philosophy, orientation and nature of public library are routed in the responsibility of disseminating diverse and current information services to the members of its community. Waller and Mcshare ... , and often are members of both a library system/network and a political community. The library in New London, Connecticut, for example, is supported primarily through city taxes and is clearly a

Issues and Trends in the Provision of Public Library Services in Nigeria: A Literature Survey

The philosophy, orientation and nature of public library are routed in the responsibility of disseminating diverse and current information services to the members of its community. Waller and Mcshare ... , and often are members of both a library system/network and a political community. The library in New London, Connecticut, for example, is supported primarily through city taxes and is clearly a

Towards a simple mathematical model for the legal concept of balancing of interests

person would be considered. The parameter does not contain any information regarding whether the public knowledge is based on the person’s role for political decision or as a person of cultural interest ... classification of German political Twitter postings as criminal offenses . In: Proceedings of the 2019 conference of the north American chapter of the association for computational linguistics: human language

Symbiosis with artificial intelligence via the prism of law, robots, and society

, economic, and political system into the legal. As such, an argument is that when considering granting legal status to robots, one has to look at the whole context and the impact that different perspectives ... a tedious, lengthy, and costly process. In addition, there are several controversial decisions or cases where bias is evident from the lawyers, judges, jury, etc. Sometimes, societal, political, or