In many countries camera surveillance has become commonplace, and ordinary citizens and consumers are increasingly aware that they are under surveillance in everyday life. Camera surveillance is typically perceived as the archetype of contemporary surveillance technologies and processes. While there is sometimes fierce debate about their introduction, many others take the cameras for granted or even applaud their deployment. Yet what the presence of surveillance cameras actually achieves is still very much in question. International evidence shows that they have very little effect in deterring crime and in 'making people feel safer’, but they do serve to place certain groups under greater official scrutiny and to extend the reach of today’s ‘surveillance society’. Eyes Everywhere provides the first international perspective on the development of camera surveillance. It scrutinizes the quiet but massive expansion of camera surveillance around the world in recent years, focusing especially on Canada, the UK and the USA but also including less-debated but important contexts such as Brazil, China, Japan, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey. Containing both broad overviews and illuminating case-studies, including cameras in taxi-cabs and at mega-events such as the Olympics, the book offers a valuable oversight on the status of camera surveillance in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The book will be fascinating reading for students and scholars of camera surveillance as well as policy makers and practitioners from the police, chambers of commerce, private security firms and privacy- and data-protection agencies.
Author(s): Aaron Doyle, Randy Lippert, David Lyon
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 409
Tags: Crime Prevention, Video Surveillance: Social Aspects, Closed-circuit Television: Social Aspects, Public Safety, Privacy, Right Of
Cover
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Eyes Everywhere: The global growth of camera surveillance
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Copyright
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Contents
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Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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1. Introduction
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Part I: Situating camera surveillance growth
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2. There’s no success like failure and failure’s no success at all: Some critical reflections on the global growth of CCTV surveillance
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3. What goes up, must come down: On the moribundity of camera networks in the UK
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4. Seeing surveillantly: Surveillance as social practice
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Part II: International growth of camera surveillance
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5. Cameras in context: A comparison of the place of video surveillance in Japan and Brazil
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6. The growth and further proliferation of camera surveillance in South Africa
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7. The piecemeal development of camera surveillance in Canada
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Part III: Evolving forms and uses of camera surveillance
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8. The electronic eye of the police: The provincial information and security system in Istanbul
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9. Policing in the age of information: Automated number plate recognition
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10. Video surveillance in Vancouver: Legacies of the Games
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11. Selling surveillance: The introduction of cameras in Ottawa taxis
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12. Deploying camera surveillance images: The case of Crime Stoppers
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13. Hidden changes: From CCTV to ‘smart’ video surveillance
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Part IV: Public support, media visions and the politics of representation
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14. Anti-surveillance activists v. the dancing heads of terrorism: Signal crimes, media frames and camera promotion
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15. Surveillance cameras and synopticism: A case study in Mexico City
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16. Appropriation and the authoring function of surveillance in Manu Luksch’s Faceless
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17. ‘What do you think?’: International public opinion on camera surveillance
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Part V: Regulating camera surveillance
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18. Towards a framework of contextual integrity: Legality, trust and compliance of CCTV signage
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19. Mitigating asymmetic visibilities: Towards a signage code for surveillance camera networks
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20. Is it a ‘search’?: The legal context of camera surveillance in Canada
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21. Privacy as security: Comparative developments in Canada, the UK and the USA
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22. Sometimes what’s public is ‘private’: Legal rights to privacy in public spaces
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Index
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