Eyes Everywhere
The Global Growth of Camera Surveillance
In many countries camera surveillance has become commonplace, and ordinary citizens and consumers are increasingly aware that they are under surveillance in everyday life. Camera surveillance is typically perceived as the archetype of contemporary surveillance technologies and processes. While there is sometimes fierce debate about their introduction, many others take the cameras for granted or even applaud their deployment. Yet what the presence of surveillance cameras actually achieves is still very much in question. International evidence shows that they have very little effect in deterring crime and in 'making people feel safer', but they…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Lippert, Randy (Hrsg.) / Lyon, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-136-49699-8
- EAN: 9781136496998
- Produktnummer: 13815312
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 408 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'206 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 16 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 9 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Aaron Doyle is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. His research focuses on how institutions like the mass media, the criminal justice system and insurance organizations deal with risk through surveillance and other means, and the security and insecurity that results.Randy Lippert is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Windsor, Canada. His research interests include security, governance, and surveillance. He has published one book and many articles, most recently, 'Advancing governmentality studies: Lessons from social constructionism', Theoretical Criminology 14(4): 473-494 (with Kevin Stenson).David Lyon is Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre and Professor of Sociology at Queen's University. His most recent books include Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance (Polity 2009), Playing the Identity Card (co-edited with Colin J. Bennett, Routledge, 2008) and Surveillance Studies: An Overview (Polity 2007).
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