2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.2012.01298.x
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Policy Legitimacy, Rhetorical Politics, and the Evaluation of City‐Street Video Surveillance Monitoring Programs in Canada

Abstract: 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 vidéo… Show more

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“…We show how Vancouver's system initially gained policy legitimacy -that is, a confidence among stakeholders and members of the public that policy options are justified, appropriate, and fair (Schön and Rein, 1994) -through a policy discourse of situational awareness. Reminiscent of academic findings on patterns of compliance among fixed monitoring systems (Hier, 2010;Hier and Walby, 2011;Lett et al, 2012), we demonstrate that policy legitimacy was achieved in Vancouver by adhering to, while simultaneously (and paradoxically) subverting, stipulations set out in the provincial privacy commissioner's best practices guidelines. We advance beyond previous findings by showing how policy legitimacy was strengthened as policymakers tailored an imported policy framework to address tacit assumptions about public safety.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 78%
“…We show how Vancouver's system initially gained policy legitimacy -that is, a confidence among stakeholders and members of the public that policy options are justified, appropriate, and fair (Schön and Rein, 1994) -through a policy discourse of situational awareness. Reminiscent of academic findings on patterns of compliance among fixed monitoring systems (Hier, 2010;Hier and Walby, 2011;Lett et al, 2012), we demonstrate that policy legitimacy was achieved in Vancouver by adhering to, while simultaneously (and paradoxically) subverting, stipulations set out in the provincial privacy commissioner's best practices guidelines. We advance beyond previous findings by showing how policy legitimacy was strengthened as policymakers tailored an imported policy framework to address tacit assumptions about public safety.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 78%
“…In justifying various types of solutions, the rhetoric of logos appeals to the self‐interest calculation of the audience, a rhetorical strategy that has the potential to establish the pragmatic legitimacy of a new practice or policy (Edwards & Nicoll, ; Gottweis, ; Green, , p. 659; Greener, ; Lett et al, ). In the case of happiness indices, this line of rhetorical argument is elaborated by stressing the shortcomings of current accounting systems that have been dominated by economic metrics and other traditional objective indicators.…”
Section: Analytic Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…16–17; Gottweis, , pp. 242–43; Lett, Hier, & Walby, ). Authorization is another legitimation strategy in which rhetoric “[makes] reference to authority of tradition, custom, law and persons in whom institutional authority of some kind is vested” (Vaara & Tienar, , p. 988; see also Winton, , pp.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Esta tecnología ha sido particularmente popular y mediatizada en Inglaterra (Barnard-Willis, 2011), donde se ha buscado prevenir la delincuencia a través de la modificación de los patrones de comportamiento desde el miedo o preocupación por la observación (Lio, 2004;Ho, 2012). El uso de CCTV es hoy muy amplio en países "occidentales" como Suiza (Klauser, 2009) o Canadá (Lett, 2012).…”
Section: Políticas De Seguridad: Cámaras Vs Dronesunclassified