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## Crime, Justice and Surveillance A two-day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield in association with Surveillance & Society In the UK the last decade has seen an unprecedented deployment of surveillance technologies and practices in the name of crime control. Drug testing, electronic monitoring, DNA testing and video monitoring have all expanded rapidly. Actuarial practices based on risk assessment and offender profiling have become central to proactive based policing strategies that »target the criminal and not the crime«, and intelligence gathering has been put at the heart of policing. In addition multi-agency partnerships, which integrate police, probation, education, social services and health departments in a »joined up« approach to crime reduction have led to new practices of information exchange. This is aimed at both identifying potential deviants for pre-emptive intervention and subjecting known criminals to »intensive supervision and surveillance« in the community. The criminal record has now been enhanced and expanded with the development of searchable data-base technologies, specialist registers, and facili

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2005

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences