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Video surveillance : power and privacy in everyday life / Bilge Yesil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yesil, Bilge, 1973-
- Series:
- Law and society (New York, N.Y.)
- Law and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video surveillance--United States.
- Video surveillance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Yesil proposes that video surveillance is not a novel technology specific to the post-September 11 era, but that it can be historicized within crime prevention and risk management initiatives going back to the 1970's. Analyzing press coverage, security industry statements, and federal agency and law enforcement reports, Yesil discusses this visual technique of knowing and communicating as part of the larger culture of control, and she situates it in the broader processes of rationalization and normalization. Based on interviews with police officers, school administrators, students and private...
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Surveillance and the city
- Reading, writing and surveillance
- Understanding privacy
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p.149-165) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781593325763
- 1593325762
- OCLC:
- 773565191
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