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Surveillance & crime / Roy Coleman and Michael McCahill.
LIBRA HV7936.T4 C65 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coleman, Roy, 1964-
- Series:
- Key approaches to criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electronic surveillance.
- Electronic surveillance--Social aspects.
- Police patrol--Surveillance operations.
- Police patrol.
- Crime.
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Surveillance and crime
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2011.
- Summary:
- "Surveillance has a long-standing relationship with crime and its identification, prevention, detection, and punishment. With information on each citizen spanning up to 700 databases and over 4 million CCTV cameras in the UK alone, many have put forward the notion that we live in a 'surveillance society'. This book critically explores this notion in relation to the development and uses of surveillance technologies, the intensification of monitoring and control, and the uneven impact this is having upon different populations in modern society.
- Offering a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between surveillance, crime, and criminal justice, this book explores: The development of surveillance technologies within a broad historical context; How 'new surveillance' technologies are shaped by existing social relations, political practices, cultural traditions and organizational contexts; The implications of the use of surveillance in responding to crime (including biometrics, DNA samples and electronic monitoring) and How 'new' surveillance technologies reinforce 'old' social divisions - particularly along the lines of class, race, gender and age."--pub. desc.
- Contents:
- Surveillance, Crime and Controversy
- Understanding Surveillance
- The Historical Foundations of Surveillance
- New Policing and New Surveillance
- Globalization, Surveillance and the 'War' on Terror
- Surveillance, Power and Social Impacts
- 'Contesting' and 'Resisting' Surveillance
- The Politics of Visibility and Invisibility
- Deconstructing Surveillance, Crime and Power.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1847873537
- 9781847873521
- 1847873529
- 9781847873538
- OCLC:
- 680639545
- Publisher Number:
- 99958286468
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