Crime, Security and Surveillance

Effects for the Surveillant and the Surveilled

Gudrun Vande Walle, Evelien Van den Herrewegen, Nils Zurawski

• Publisher: Eleven International Publishing
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9789460945946
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

The surveillance society has significantly been discussed in social sciences over the last ten years. Phenomena like terrorist threats and illegal migration flows on the one hand, and an anxious Western population on the other, which seem to legitimize a considerable growth and sophistication of databases and surveillance technologies. Surveillance technologies may lead towards a more secure society for some. However, they also have a profound rearranging effect on society and may be a threat for fundamental human rights. For these reasons, social scientists have tried to slow down this fast-moving and self-evident evolution in the last ten years. In this volume, the debate continues by discussing the protagonists in the surveillance society: the surveillants and the surveilled. The book's contributions lay out the consequences of surveillance technologies in specific settings for: the large diversity of public, private, official, and informal surveillants * the diversity of included or excluded, rich or poor, anxious or careless people under surveillance * the social interaction of the different actors in surveillance settings.

Table of contents

• Cover (front)
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Crime, Security and Surveillance - Effects for the Surveillant and the Surveilled
• Beyond Criminal Law. On the Dutch Anti-Social Behaviour Agenda
• Surveillance in the Supermarket: Technology and the Pluralisation of Crime Control
• Better Safe Than Sorry, But You Know Don't Overdo It. Responsibilisation and Fatalism in Perception of Safety
• Citizen Journalism, Surveillance and Control
• The Nodal-Network Fallacy in the Surveillance of Transit Migration in Belgian Harbours
• Policing Flows and Nodes: A Dutch Interpretation
• Securing the Legitimacy of Surveillance: Automatic Number Plate Recognition in Dutch Policing
• The Political Geography of Public Space. On Criminalisation and Punishment, Privatisation, Dispersion and Exclusion
• Police and Surveillance in Paris: Are the French Police Becoming Knowledge Workers and Risk Managers?
• Multiple Views of DNA Surveillance: The Surveilled, the Surveillants and the Academics
• The Boss as Big Brother: Moral Aspects of Workplace Surveillance
• The Securitisation of Environmental Conflicts, a Blessing or a Curse?
• About the Author
• Het Groene Gras