Pamela Ugwudike is Professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton, UK. She has international expertise in the ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, with a focus on the data-driven technologies informing criminal justice policy and practice. Professor Ugwudike has led interdisciplinary projects on the ethics of advanced predictive tools (2019-2021) and online social networking algorithms (2021-2025), with funding from the Alan Turing Institute (the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence) and the Economic and Social Research Council respectively. Her forthcoming books include "The Globalisation of Pre-Crime AI in Justice Systems: Logics, Challenges, and Governance" (Publisher: Bristol University Press 2026), and a "Handbook of Digital Technologies in Criminal Justice" to be published by Oxford University Press (2026). Professor Ugwudike is also co-Editor-in-Chief of Criminology and Criminal Justice Journal (the flagship Journal of the British Society of Criminology).