This article is a contribution to widening the focus of moral panic studies. Our aim is to advance recent attempts to link moral panic studies to the criminological literature on moral regulation. We argue that moral panics should be conceptualized as volatile expressions of long-term moral regulation processes. To substantiate these conceptual and theoretical arguments, we examine claims-making activities about the threat posed by British youth who don hooded tops in public places.
Cet article examine l'évaluation et la légitimation de la vidéosurveillance en milieu urbain en Ontario, Canada. Nous démontrons comment sont promus, conçus et justifiés les programmes de surveillance sur la base des revendications de leur efficacitéémises de manière rhétorique. Bien que les données de l'évaluation du programme ne corroborent généralement pas ses objectifs, pas plus qu'elles ne les supportent, nous montrerons de quelle manière les politiques langagières de la recherche enévaluation de la vidéosurveillance trouvent leur légitimité en adhérant aux pratiques exemplaires telles qu'elles sont stipulées par le Bureau du commissaireà la protection de la vie privée de l'Ontariopratiques qui sont formulées pour minimiser la rhétorique au sein-même de la conception du système. Ce que nous avons trouvé soulève des interrogations sur la viabilité de la vidéosurveillance en milieu urbain en tant qu'option d'une politique viable,étant donné le manque de preuves relativesà son utilité.
The captivating idea of ‘public sociology’ has recently been debated across the social sciences. Although the debate has raised significant questions about the status of sociological knowledge production, insufficient attention has been devoted to thinking about how sociologists concretely enter into a civic conversation through the research process. Addressing this gap in the public sociology literature, we present partial findings from a Canada-wide investigation of how public-area streetscape video surveillance systems are implemented in various communities to think through some of the implications of actually doing public sociology. Data gleaned from focused group interviews in the City of Kelowna, British Columbia are presented to explore the challenges of facilitating a civic conversation about public policy on streetscape video surveillance.
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