McCahill, Michael

Surveillance and crime

by McCahill, Michael, Coleman, Roy

fromKey approaches to criminology

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This is a book about surveillance - a theoretical and empirical analysis of its historical emergence through to its contemporary uses and abuses - but it is much, much more than that. The authors skilfully lead us, via the idea and practices of surveillance, to core issues of 'c…

Surveillance and crime

by McCahill, Michael, Coleman, Roy

fromKey approaches to criminology

0 Type: Book

Offering an understanding of of the relationship between crime, surveillance and criminal justice, this book explores the development of surveillance technologies within a historical context. It also looks at how surveillance technologies are shaped by existing social relations,…

Surveillance & crime

by McCahill, Michael, Coleman, Roy

fromKey approaches to criminology

0 Type: Book

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…

Surveillance and crime

by McCahill, Michael, Coleman, Roy

fromKey approaches to criminology

0 Type: Book

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…

Surveillance and crime

by McCahill, Michael, Coleman, Roy

fromKey approaches to criminology

0 Type: Book

Offering an understanding of of the relationship between crime, surveillance and criminal justice, this book explores the development of surveillance technologies within a historical context. It also looks at how surveillance technologies are shaped by existing social relations,…

Surveillance & crime

by McCahill, Michael, Coleman, Roy

fromKey approaches to criminology

0 Type: Book

"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 i…

Surveillance & crime

by McCahill, Michael, Coleman, Roy

fromKey approaches to criminology

0 Type: Book

Offering an understanding of the relationship between crime surveillance and criminal justice, this book explores the development of surveillance technologies within a historical context. It also looks at how surveillance technologies are shaped by existing social relations, pol…

Surveillance is something which has always existed. In the tribal cultures of preindustrial society, for example, the level of social surveillance was intense, because most people could see and hear just about everything that was going on in the camp (McCrone, 1995). In modern i…

The surveillance web: the rise of visual surveillance in an English city

by McCahill, Michael

0 Type: Book

The rise of CCTV and surveillance technologies has been one of the key developments in contemporary society, but its impact has often been analysed in a fragmented manner. This book addresses this issue by providing a detailed, micro-sociological account of the construction of a…