Academic Researcher at the UGE
RESEARCH TOPICS
Security science and technology; situational crime prevention; delinquency prevention; predictive policing; the sociology of algorithms; the legal regulation of data mining; victimization surveys.
FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
The sociology of science and innovation; the sociology of statistics; the sociology of public policy; the sociology of knowledge on crime; digital sociology.
CAREER OVERVIEW
2013: Lecturer at the Université Marne-la-Vallée
2012: Postdoctoral researcher at the CESDIP (Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales)
2006 -2011: PhD thesis completed under a CIFRE agreement in partnership with the Agence d’urbanisme de Lyon and the RIVES laboratory (an entity of the ENTPE).
ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
– Research project in partnership with the Service d’Information du Gouvernement (SIG) (2018-2019). This project consisted in mapping the political and media vlogosphere on YouTube and developing a tool to observe and listen to YouTube (YouTube Observer). This project was undertaken with the collaboration of the organization AlgoTransparency and the company Wizdeo.
– INNOX research project (2013-2016) (ANR INOV 2013). This project is based on the observation that simulation, scanario-building, and prediction are becoming public policy practices and a form of public policy expertise. INNOX seeks to explain how and to what extent digital modelling and simulation are becoming a form of expertise applied within public policy, in three fields in particular: the simulation and prediction of delinquent behaviours and occurrences, the scenario-building of energy policies, and the modelling the toxicity of chemical products.
– Postdoctoral research project (2012): “Les usages scientifiques des enquêtes de victimation. Une analyse scientométrique”, completed at the CESDIP laboratory.
– Member of the Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation et Société (IFRIS) since 2012. IFRIS is a consortium of Île-de-France research units (URs) that have observed a gap between the importance of issues and questions related to the interactions between science, technology, and society, on the one hand, and the weaknesses of research and education structures, on the other. This Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique (GIS) was created in 2007 with the support of the French Ministry of Research, Higher Education, and Innovation.
– Creation of the “Villes Innovantes et Gestion des Savoirs” (VIGS) research association in 2012. The VIGS laboratory is a research association under the French law 1901, created in partnership with the Institut d’Études Politiques de Lyon by three political science PhDs and one geography and planning PhD. This project was set in motion in 2010 as a part of the Lyon Science Transfer programme, designed to raise researchers’ awareness of the development and detection of inventions and innovative projects. This laboratory seeks to develop know-how in the fields of political sociology and the sociology of science by seeking ways to optimize relations between the world of urban planning research and that of urban planners and city managers (European cities, states, territorial authorities, large urban utilities groups). The aim of this laboratory is to operate as a sort of sociological observatory of the science and technology of cities and urban controversies.
– Member of the Laboratoire Junior Mobilisation des Savoirs (MOSAP) (2007-2010): organization and hosting of talks, study days, and contribution to a peer-reviewed journal (cf. CV).
PHD THESIS
2011, La prévention situationnelle. Genèse et développement d’une science pratique. PhD thesis, Université de Lyon.
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
2018, “Machines à Prédire”, introduction to the special issue Machines Prédictives (co-authored with Domnique Cardon).
2018, “Quand prédire, c’est gérer. La police prédictive aux Etats-Unis”, Réseaux, No. 221, (5), p. 221-256.
2017, “Imaginer la sociologie numérique”, Sociologie et sociétés, No. 49(2), p. 5-32 (co-authored with Nicolas Baya Lafitte).
2017, “Des crimes et des séismes. La police prédictive entre science, technique et divination”, Réseaux, No. 206, p. 95-123.
2016, “L’escroquerie sur Internet”, Réseaux, No. 197-198, p. 137-71 (co-authored with Sophie Peaucellier).
2016, “Pour une sociologie du crime en ligne”, Réseaux, No. 197-198, 9-30 https://doi.org/10.3917/res.197.0009 (co-authored with Daniel Ventre).
2016, “L’escroquerie bancaire en France métropolitaine ? Profils de victimes et décisions de renvoi à la police”, CESDIP, May. http://www.cesdip.fr/lescroquerie-bancaire-france-metropolitaine-profils-de-victimes-decisions-de-renvoi-a-police/
2015, “De la prévention situationnelle au predictive policing”, Champ pénal/Penal field [online], Vol. XII | 2015.
2010, “Edito. Les études d’urbanisme : territoires et usages sociaux des savoirs urbains”, Géocarrefour, 85, 4, 267-273 (editing of a thematic issue, along with Gilles Bentayou).
2010, “Urbanisme et prévention situationnelle : le cas de la dispute des professionnels à Lyon”, Métropoles [online], 8, published online on 17 December 2010, retrieved on 05 September 2011. URL: http://metropoles.revues.org/4391
2010, “L’enquête nationale américaine de victimation : de l’indicateur compréhensif à l’analyse des facteurs de risque”, in Les politiques de quantification, special issue of Revue Française de Socio-économie, No. 5, p. 63-82 (in Gouverner par la science : perspectives comparées, Olivier Ihl, Yves Deloye, Alfredo Joignant, Presse universitaire de Grenoble, Libres cours politique, pp. 165-192, ISBN: 9782706118074).
2009, “L’urbanisme et ses études : réflexions à partir de deux exemples de politiques d’aménagement urbain à Lyon”, Les Mesures de la Ville, special issue of Histoire et Mesure, Volume XXIV, No. 2, p. 71-108 (with Gilles Bentayou).
EDITING OF SPECIAL ISSUES
2018, Machines Prédictives, special issue of Réseaux, No. 221.
2017, La sociologie numérique, special issue of Sociologie et société, No. 49 (2)
2016, Crime en ligne, special issue of Réseaux, No. 197-198.
2010, L’urbanisme et ses études, special issue of Géocarrefour, vol. 85, No. 4.
PUBLICATIONS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS
2019, “La régulation juridique de la police prédictive : règles, principes et calculs”, in Algorithmes et Décisions publiques, edited by Gilles Rouet, Les Ensemble d’Hermes, CNRS Edition.
2013, “L’enquête nationale américaine de victimation : de l’indicateur compréhensif à l’analyse des facteurs de risque”, in Gouverner par la science : perspectives comparées, Olivier Ihl, Yves Deloye, Alfredo Joignant, Presse universitaire de Grenoble, Libres cours politique, pp. 165-192
PUBLICATIONS IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
2018, “Algorithmes prédictifs et droit des algorithmes : contrôler la quantité de faux positifs moralement acceptable”, Revue de la gendarmerie nationale, p. 13-19.
2014, “Dans l’esprit de la prévention situationnelle”, Les Cahiers de la sécurité intérieure, No. 27 and 28, September.
2010, “Comment rendre la sécurité acceptable dans l’urbanisme”, Les cahiers de l’IAU, No. 155, June.
Participation in public debate
2016, “A qui profite le crime ?”, La vie des idées; English version: “Who Benefits from the Crime?” http://www.booksandideas.net/Who-Benefits-from-the-Crime.html
2015, “Repenser le droit à l’heure de la surveillance de masse”, Le Monde diplomatique, 3 June 2015. https://blog.mondediplo.net/2015-06-03-Repenser-le-droit-a-l-heure-de-la-surveillance-de.
REVIEWS
2016, in Réseaux, 196, “Alain Supiot, La gouvernance par les nombres, Paris, Fayard, coll. ‘Poids et mesures du monde’”, 2015, 520
2014, “Quantifier pour transformer”, La Vie des idées, 3 October 2014. ISSN: 2105-3030. URL : http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Quantifier-pour-transformer.html
2014, “Le gouvernement des sciences et des techniques”, La Vie des idées, 10 April 2014. ISSN: 2105-3030. URL: http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Le-gouvernement-des-sciences-et.html
2012, “Les chiffres du crime”, La Vie des idées, 12 April 2012. ISSN: 2105-3030. URL: http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Les-chiffres-du-crime.html
2012, “Des chiffres, des maux et des lettres. Une sociologie de l’expertise judiciaire en économie, psychiatrie et traduction”, co-authored with J. Pélisse, C. Protais, K. Larchet, and E. Charrier. Armand Colin, Paris (2012), 286 p. Sociologie du Travail 01/2013; 55(2):273-275.