CCTV and Policing :Public Area Surveillance and Police Practices in Britain - Clarendon Studies in Criminology

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CCTV and Policing

CCTV and Policing :Public Area Surveillance and Police Practices in Britain - Clarendon Studies in Criminology

3.67 (3 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 19 February, 2004
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CCTV and Policing is the first major published work to present a comprehensive assessment of the impact of CCTV on the police in Britain. Drawing extensively upon empirical research, the volume examines how the police in Britain first became involved in public area surveillance, and how they have since attempted to use CCTV technology to prevent, respond to, and investigate crime. In addition, the volume also provides a detailed analysis of the legality of CCTV surveillance in light of recent changes to the Data Protection Act and the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Challenging many existing accounts of the relationship between the police and new surveillance technologies, CCTV and Policing breaks new ground in policing and surveillance theory, and argues that it is time for a major reassessment of both our understanding of how the police respond to technological change, and of the role played by such technologies in our society.
Prizes

Winner of Shortlisted for the British Society of Criminology Prize 2005.

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780199265145
ISBN10 0199265143
Number Of Pages 260
Item Weight 426 g
Product Dimensions 144 x 224 x 18 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press
Format hardback
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CCTV and Policing is a rigorous piece of work that sheds fascinating light on a subject too little discussed, and it deserves to be read far outside the realm of academic criminology, especially by those concerned about civil liberties. * Times Higher Education Supplement *

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Author's Bio

Benjamin Goold has been Lecturer in Law at both Corpus Christi College and New College, Oxford. From 2001-2, he was Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Law and Police Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, and he is currently Associate Professor of Anglo-American Law at the Faculty of Law, Niigata University, Japan.

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