Scientification through privatization: POL-INTEL in Denmark

Based on the empirical case of the POL-INTEL platform used by the Danish police, which is a customized version of Palantir Technologies’ Gotham platform, this article traces the interrelation between scientification and policing in the digital era as articulated in and through a private actor. Ethno...

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Veröffentlicht in:Theoretical criminology Jg. 29; H. 3; S. 346 - 364
Hauptverfasser: Karlsson, Björn, Galis, Vasilis
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2025
Sage Publications Ltd
Schlagworte:
Boxing
Criminal justice
Criminal justice system
Delegation
Ethnography
Intelligence
Police
Policing
Privatization
science and technology studies
privatization
scientification
predictive policing
intelligence-led policing
ISSN:1362-4806, 1461-7439
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Zusammenfassung:Based on the empirical case of the POL-INTEL platform used by the Danish police, which is a customized version of Palantir Technologies’ Gotham platform, this article traces the interrelation between scientification and policing in the digital era as articulated in and through a private actor. Ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, publicly available policy documents as well as documents detailing police practices, organization, ambitions and workflows are used to problematize digital policing platforms and practices in terms of wider criminological theories and models. We show that POL-INTEL epitomizes a historical trajectory of scientification through privatization by drawing together intelligence practices, market logics, and datafication methodologies. With this point of departure, we trace back how the entanglement of private actors and the police organization raises concerns about the black boxing of criminological procedures, and the delegation of decisions and knowledge within the criminal justice system to private actors lacking public values.
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ISSN:1362-4806
1461-7439
DOI:10.1177/13624806251345461