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DEBORAH OSBORNE, MA
The KurzweilAI.net article
Molecular Manufacturing and the Need for Crime Science said
The anticipated emergence of molecular manufacturing (MM) within
decades requires new conceptualizations about crime and new strategies
to address it. The seeds of possible solutions are planted in the
United Kingdom where formal policing began. These seeds are called
"crime science".
Early policing stressed that the principal duty of police was to
prevent crime rather than detect it.ii Crime science focuses on using
science in creative and unprecedented ways to prevent crime.
What type of crime will occur in a world with MM? If the terrorist
activities of this decade so far are indicators, it is likely that
fundamentalist reactions to science will result in terrorist acts
against scientists who threaten world order as we know it. This alone
is cause for examining how we might prevent crime, as preventing crime
is similar to preventing terrorism. Since much of the crime of the
future will be enabled by new technology, it will be necessary to
develop strategies to prevent the abuse of technology.
Deborah Osborne, MA was the author of this article and is 2007-2008
President of the
Society of Police
Futurists International (PFI) and a member of the
FBI/PFI Futures Working Group. She recently left her ten-year
position
as a crime
analyst with the Buffalo Police Department and is now an independent
researcher/writer/educator and is also on the
Board of Advisors for
IxReveal,
a business intelligence leader in text analytics for
unstructured and structured data. She earned a BA in Psychology and a MA in
Social Policy (with a criminal justice emphasis) from Empire State
College, State University of New York.
Debbie's book
Out of
Bounds: Innovation and Change in Law Enforcement Intelligence
Analysis was based on a study employing Appreciative Inquiry
conducted during
her remote fellowship with the Center for Strategic Intelligence
Research, Joint Military Intelligence College (now the National Defense
Intelligence College). She is author of books, book chapters, articles,
and essays on topics related to crime and intelligence analysis
including
Introduction to Crime Analysis: Basic Resources for Criminal Justice
Practice.
She is
currently writing a novel and has been a poet since she was eleven
years old.
Her interests include integral and
transpersonal
psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and anthropology. She is a member
of the Global Task Force for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology,
the International Association for Intelligence Education, the
International Association of Crime Analysts, and the International
Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts.
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