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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, political practices, and organizational contexts. 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 United Kingdom alone, this book explores how new technologies have given rise to new forms of monitoring and control. Offering a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between surveillance, crime and criminal justice, this book explores: the development of surveillance technologies within a broad historical context how new surveillance technologies are shaped by existing social relations, political practices, cultural traditions and organizational contexts the implications of the use of surveillance in responding to crime (including biometrics, DNA samples and electronic monitoring) how 'new' surveillance technologies reinforce 'old

Author

ROY COLEMAN AND MICHAEL MCCAHILL

Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781849204446

Subjects

True Crime, Science, Social Science