The new spectacle of crime

Palmer, Gareth

doi:10.1080/13691189809358978

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“…Important other considerations include conflating crime mapping efforts with established accountability measures; or, as Chainey and Tompson called it, confusing theater of transparency for meaningful accountability. Worse, crime has increasingly become entertainment (Palmer, 1998). Open government efforts, like crime mapping, are ideologically akin to bedrock transparency laws, like FOI laws, though open government should not be confused with real government access or public records laws (Schrock, 2016).…”

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Owning the Police: Crime Data, Copyright, and Public Information

Wagner

2023

JOCI

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Online crime maps, which plot law enforcement crime data, promise to promote civic engagement and increase government transparency. This study reviewed the websites of the 250 largest U.S. cities and found 65% host or link to a crime map, and that 116 police departments entered into agreements with crime mapping companies that provide the companies preferred or exclusive access to local crime data, curtailing public access and use. This study examines the legal tactics used by commercial mapping companies to maintain information control, explores recent examples of legal battles over the data, and proposes solutions, including targeted public record law amendments, parallel access, and a generalized right of access.

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Owning the Police: Crime Data, Copyright, and Public Information

Wagner

2023

JOCI

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“…These reports appear to represent outlying cases, but this is an effective law enforcement tactic, in which newspaper editors have been complicit: making a spectacle of the disgraced professional, to cue other physicians to discipline themselves. This calls to mind Foucauldian self-discipline, wherein those who are knowingly subjected to surveillance tend to enact discipline upon themselves (Foucault, 1977), with the addition of mediated public spectacle, previously noted by Palmer (1998).…”

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Phenotyping as disciplinary practice: Data infrastructure and the interprofessional conflict over drug use in California

Hussain

Bowker

2021

Big Data & Society

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The narrative of the digital phenotype as a transformative vector in healthcare is nearly identical to the concept of “data drivenness” in other fields such as law enforcement. We examine the role of a prescription drug monitoring program in California—a computerized law enforcement surveillance program enabled by a landmark Supreme Court case that upheld “broad police powers”—in the interprofessional conflict between physicians and law enforcement over the jurisdiction of drug use. We bring together interview passages, clinical artifacts, and academic and gray literature to investigate the power relations between police, physicians, and patients to show that prescribing data appear to the physician as evidence of problematic patient behavior by the patients, and to law enforcement as evidence of physician misconduct. In turn, physicians have adopted a disciplinary approach to patients, using quasi-legalistic documents to litigate patient behavior. We conclude that police powers have been used to pave data infrastructure through a contested jurisdiction, and law enforcement have used that infrastructure to enroll physicians into the work of disciplining patients.

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Camp Delta, Google Earth and the ethics of remote sensing in archaeology

Myers

2010

World Archaeology

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The new spectacle of crime

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Owning the Police: Crime Data, Copyright, and Public Information

Owning the Police: Crime Data, Copyright, and Public Information

Phenotyping as disciplinary practice: Data infrastructure and the interprofessional conflict over drug use in California

Camp Delta, Google Earth and the ethics of remote sensing in archaeology

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