Policing in the Era of AI and Smart Societies

Foreword.- Rethinking Criminal Justice in Cyberspace: The EU E-evidence framework as a new model of cross-border cooperation in criminal matters.- Policing in the era of AI and Smart Societies: austerity; legitimacy and blurring the line of consent.- Behavioral Analytics; A Preventative Means for the Future of Policing.- Securing Transparency and Governance of Organ Supply Chain Through Blockchain.- IoT and cloud forensic investigation guidelines.- Algorithms can predict domestic abuse, but should we let them?.- Tackling teen sexting - policing challenges when society and technology outpace legislation.- Image Recognition in Child Sexual Exploitation Material - Capabilities, Ethics and Rights.- Predictive policing in 2025: A scenario.- Patterns in Policing.- Proposed Forensic Guidelines for the Investigation of Fake News.- Current Challenges of Modern-Day Domestic Abuse.

Hamid Jahankhani's principal research area for a number of years has been in the field of cyber security, information security and digital forensics. In partnership with the key industrial sectors, he has examined and established several innovative research projects that are of direct relevance to the needs of UK and European information security, digital forensics industries, Critical National Infrastructure and law enforcement agencies. Hamid have planned, proposed and managed several collaborative projects, and secured a substantial research income of up to £6m.

Professor Jahankhani is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, www.inderscience.com/ijesdf, International Journal of Electronic democracy, www.inderscience.com/ijed, both published by Inderscience and general chair of the annual International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3). Hamid has edited and contributed to over 20 books and has over 150 conference and journal publications together with Various BBC radio interviews. Hamid has supervised to completion 13 PhD and professional doctorate degree students and overseen 67 PhD students progressing. In summer 2017 Hamid was trained as the GCHQ "cyberist" to train the next generation of cyber security experts through GCHQ CyberFirst initiative. Recently, Hamid trained over 100 frontline police officers in three of the larges London Boroughs.

Babak Akhgar is Professor of Informatics and Director of CENTRIC at Sheffield Hallam University and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in Software Engineering, and later gained considerable commercial experience as a Strategy Analyst and Methodology Director for several companies. He consolidated this experience by obtaining a Masters degree (with distinction) in Information Systems in Management and a PhD in Information Systems. Babak has more than 100 referred