NCJ Number
178396
Editor(s)
Clive Norris,
Jade Moran,
Gary Armstrong
Date Published
1998
Length
288 pages
Annotation
This book attempts to account for the rise of photographic surveillance in the context of 1990s Britain and to consider the issues that arise from the omnipresence of surveillance cameras in public space.
Abstract
The book explores some of the more general aspects of the relationship between closed circuit television (CCTV), power and surveillance: (1) Does it reduce crime and, if so, how? (2) Whose interests are promoted in the deployment of CCTV systems? (3) Why has there been so little public resistance or challenge to CCTV systems? (4) What are the implications of the deployment of CCTV systems for citizens’ subjective experience of public space? (5) What power is held to account and what limits are placed on its operation? and (6) What is the impact of new computing and database technologies in increasing the scope of power? Essays in the book are organized around the following themes CCTV and Social Theory; CCTV in Context; Evaluating CCTV; Questioning CCTV; and The Future and the Past. Notes, references, figures, tables