CCTV: Beyond Penal Modernism?

Norris, Clive; McCahill, Michael

doi:10.1093/bjc/azi047

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“…Moreover, CCTV literatures have also been attentive to operators and those they observe; works have focused on the 'cat and mouse' of operator and surveyed, as those watched avoid areas or deliberately act suspiciously (see Armstrong and Norris, 1999;Ball, 2002). Other works, notably Norris and McCahill (2006), have been attentive to the social interaction and microsociologies of the control room and how operators interact with security systems and colleagues. However, I am interested in collapsing and unsettling the relations between observer and those observed, especially when the operator is called upon to act in ways that upset or surprise the normative structures, responsibilities and accountabilities of their roles and especially when operators are legally obliged to perform these disruptive tasks.…”

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Experiences of accessing CCTV data: The urban topologies of subject access requests

Spiller

2016

Urban Studies

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Experiences of accessing CCTV data: The urban topologies of subject access requests

Spiller

2016

Urban Studies

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“…In our updated systematic reviews of these two interventions, we obtained and analyzed a total of 57 evaluations of high methodological quality (that is, involving before-and-after measures of crime in experimental and mostly comparable control areas); another 66 less rigorous evaluations were also obtained and analyzed ( Farrington and Welsh, 2007 ;Welsh and Farrington, 2009 ) for our earlier reviews, see Farrington and Welsh, 2002 ;Welsh and Farrington, 2004 ). And in recent years, there has been a marked and sustained growth in the use of public area CCTV in many Western nations, especially in the United Kingdom and United States ( Norris and McCahill, 2006 ;Savage, 2007 ).…”

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Reconceptualizing public area surveillance and crime prevention: Security guards, place managers and defensible space

Welsh

Mudge

Farrington

2009

Secur J

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It is important to assess the effectiveness of the full range of surveillance measures that are used to prevent crime in public places. Closed-circuit television and improved street lighting are the most well developed measures that are in current use, at least in terms of the evaluation literature. Other widely used public area surveillance measures include security guards, place managers and defensible space. This paper reports on a systematic review of the effects on crime of these other forms of public area surveillance. Twelve evaluations met the inclusion criteria. There is fairly strong and consistent evidence that the defensible space technique of street closures or barricades is effective in preventing crime in inner-city neighborhoods. In the case of security guards, the weight of the evidence suggests that it is a promising technique of formal surveillance when implemented in car parks and targeted at vehicle crimes. The surveillance technique of place managers appears to be of unknown effectiveness in preventing crime in public places. Implications for policy and research are discussed.

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“…Here, for example, cam-era surveillance has been located within broader postmodern forms of penality based on the management and redistribution of risks (Norris and McCahill, 2006), rather than aspiring to modernist forms of re-normalizing or rehabilitating transgressors. In such circumstances, social control is no longer 'social'.…”

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Constructing resilience through security and surveillance: The politics, practices and tensions of security-driven resilience

Coaffee

Fussey

2015

Security Dialogue

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This article illuminates how, since 9/11, security policy has gradually become more central to a range of resilience discourses and practices. As this process draws a wider range of security infrastructures, organizations and approaches into the enactment of resilience, security practices are enabled through more palatable and legitimizing discourses of resilience. This article charts the emergence and proliferation of security-driven resilience logics, deployed at different spatial scales, which exist in tension with each other. We exemplify such tensions in practice through a detailed case study from Birmingham, UK: 'Project Champion' an attempt to install over 200 high-resolution surveillance cameras, often invisibly, around neighbourhoods with a predominantly Muslim population. Here, practices of security-driven resilience came into conflict with other policy priorities focused upon community-centred social cohesion, posing a series of questions about social control, surveillance and the ability of national agencies to construct community resilience in local areas amidst state attempts to label the same spaces as 'dangerous'. It is argued that security-driven logics of resilience generate conflicts in how resilience is operationalized, and produce and reproduce new hierarchical arrangements which, in turn, may work to subvert some of the founding aspirations and principles of resilience logic itself.

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CCTV: Beyond Penal Modernism?

Cited by 80 publications

References 18 publications

Experiences of accessing CCTV data: The urban topologies of subject access requests

Experiences of accessing CCTV data: The urban topologies of subject access requests

Reconceptualizing public area surveillance and crime prevention: Security guards, place managers and defensible space

Constructing resilience through security and surveillance: The politics, practices and tensions of security-driven resilience

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