Biography
Marc Schuilenburg is Professor of Digital Surveillance at Erasmus School of Law.
Marc Schuilenburg studied Law and Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and received his PhD in social sciences at VU University Amsterdam. Before his university teaching, he worked for six years for the Dutch Public Prosecution Service. Schuilenburg was appointed in 2021 as Professor of Digital Surveillance at Erasmus School of Law (and works one day a week at TNO).
The focus of his research is on the increase in size and complexity of surveillance technologies, which increasingly rely on AI and algorithms to support decision-making and to predict ‘risky’ patterns and persons. Schuilenburg is interested how AI-technologies can be designed with ‘care’ and sensibly to democratic values such as fairness, accountability and transparency. Special attention is given how AI-tools are understood, articulated, experienced or even resisted by various actors, and how these AI-experiences can have real consequences for the results of a security program.
Schuilenburg is the author of Making Surveillance Public: Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms (Eleven, 2024). In his book, he explores the deployment of AI applications, asking who is using them, what their aims are, what outcomes and societal impacts they lead to, and against whom they are used. To this end, Schuilenburg makes a case for a digital criminology centred on sociological questions of power, knowledge and AI-experiences.
Schuilenburg published the critically and highly acclaimed books Hysteria (Routledge, 2021), The Securitization of Society (NYU-Press, 2015) and Mediapolis (010-Publishers, 2006). He edited eight books, including The Algorithmic Society (Routledge, 2021) and Positive Criminology (Eleven, 2014). His PhD on security assemblages was awarded the triennial Willem Nagel Prize by the Dutch Society of Criminology. Schuilenburg has been a visiting professor in New York (John Jay College, 2013) and Ipswich (University Campus Suffolk, 2014-2020).
Schuilenburg has been featured in (inter)national newspaper, radio and television media outlets, including VICE, Open Democracy, NPO Radio, Nieuwsuur, NRC Handelsblad, de Volkskrant, Trouw, de Groene Amsterdammer, Euronews, Follow the Money, the Correspondent, NOS, and Arte.
Erasmus School of Law
- schuilenburg@law.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
Erasmus School of Law
- schuilenburg@law.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Marc Schuilenburg (2024) - Making Surveillance Public: Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms - [link]
- Maša Galic, Abhijit Das & Marc Schuilenburg (2023) - AI and Administration of Criminal Justice: Report on The Netherlands - e-Revue Internationale de Droit Pénal, 5-61
- Maša Galic, Abhijit Das & Marc Schuilenburg (2023) - AI systems and evidence law in the Netherlands - [link]
- Marc Schuilenburg & Rik Peeters (2023) - Algorithmic Governance: Technology, Power, and Knowledge - doi: 10.4135/9781529783193
- Marc Schuilenburg & Yarin Eski (2023) - ‘Als het gaat om technologieën die fundamenteel discriminerend zijn, moet het doel altijd abolitionisme zijn.’: Interview met Chris Gilliard (aka Hypervisible) - Tijdschrift over Cultuur en Criminaliteit, 13 (2), 92-98 - doi: 10.5553/tcc/221195072023013002009
- Marc Schuilenburg (2023) - Big data policing: Schets van de belangrijkste vraagstukken, partijen en nieuwste trends in de praktijk
- Marc Schuilenburg & M Soudijn (2023) - Big Data Policing: The Use of Big Data and Algorithms by the Netherlands Police - Policing: A Journal of Police and Practice, 17 - doi: 10.1093/police/paad061 - [link]
- Marc Schuilenburg & M Soudijn (2023) - Digitale surveillance: Achtergrond, opkomst en onderzoek - Tijdschrift over Cultuur en Criminaliteit, 13 (2), 3-12 - [link]
- Marc Schuilenburg & M Soudijn (2023) - Nieuwe kennis en vaardigheden in het politiewerk - Het Tijdschrift voor de Politie, 21-25
- Marc Schuilenburg (2022) - Een orgie van geweld: Over de avondklok en Coolsingelrellen - Rotterdams Jaarboekje, 64-66
BOOM
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- november 2022
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- november 2025
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- DEN HAAG
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Nationale Politie
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- november 2022
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- november 2025
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Nederlandse Veiligheidsbranche
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- november 2022
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- november 2025
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- TILBURG
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Nationale Politie
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- februari 2024
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- februari 2027
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- DEN HAAG
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Openbaar Ministerie
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- februari 2024
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- februari 2027
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Foundations of Criminology
- Level
- bachelor 2
- Year Level
- bachelor 2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RC211
Globalisation, Digitalisation, Crime & G
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RQ42
Thesis Master Criminology
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RS133