Doing Surveillance Studies in Latin America:  Social sorting in contexts of violence

Arteaga, Nelson

doi:10.24908/ss.v13i1.5159

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“…In Latin America, surveillance is closely linked to insecurity and violence. It has mainly been publicly discussed as a technical problem, part of the strategies used for crime control, but not as a problem on its own (Arteaga, 2014). The public, fearful of the spread of violence, widely welcomes the adoption of all sorts of surveillance solutions in cities, which have the highest concentration of crime and violence in the world (Muggah & Tobón, 2018).…”

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Data Corruption: The Institutional Cultures of Data Collection and the Case of a Crime-Mapping System in Latin America

Barreneche

2019

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Background This article is a case study about a surveillance system deployed in a Latin American city that collects and analyses geocoded historical crime data in order to identify crime hot spots.Analysis The case study focuses on the adoption of this technology by data collectors and the institutional cultures that mediate its workings. The article documents the conflicting adjustment strategies carried out by low-level police officers when the same crime data that they help to produce are operationalized as labour performance indicators.Conclusion and implications Drawing from scholarship in the field of critical data studies, this work situates the practices of data generation within institutional power relations to shed light on the particular politics at play in data-driven policing systems in the Latin American context.Contexte Cet article présente une étude de cas sur un système de surveillance, mis en œuvre dans une ville d’Amérique-latine, qui collecte et analyse des données de criminalité historiques géocodées afin d’identifier les points chauds de cette criminalité. Analyse L’étude de cas porte sur l’adoption de cette technologie par les collecteurs de données et sur les cultures institutionnelles qui en assurent son fonctionnement. L’article décrit les stratégies d’ajustement problématiques mises en œuvre par les officiers de police de rang inférieur lorsque les mêmes données sur la criminalité qu’ils aident à collecter, sont utilisées en tant qu’indicateurs de leur performance professionnelle par l’institution.Conclusion et implications Sur la base des développements dans le domaine des études de données critiques, ce travail situe les pratiques de génération de données au milieu des relations de pouvoir institutionnelles afin de mettre en lumière la dimension politique présente dans la mise en œuvre de systèmes de surveillance.

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Data Corruption: The Institutional Cultures of Data Collection and the Case of a Crime-Mapping System in Latin America

Barreneche

2019

Canadian Journal of Communication

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“…Although not as present as it is in Europe and North America, "surveillance studies" is a promising and growing domain of research in Latin America (see, for example, the works of Machado (1993), Bruno et al (2010), Cardoso (2012), Melgaço (2013), Castro & Pedro (2013), Bruno (2013), Parra (2013), Pimenta & Melgaço (2014), Doneda & Mendes (2014), Arteaga (2011Arteaga ( , 2015 among others). The consolidation of the field coincides with the creation of the Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies (LAVITS) (www.lavits.org).…”

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