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  • The Maximum Surveillance Society

    The Rise of CCTV

    The use of Closed-Circuit Television, or CCTV, has dramatically increased over the past decade, but its presence is often so subtle as to go unnoticed. Should we unthinkingly accept that increased surveillance is in the public's best interests, or does this mean that ‘Big Brother' is finally watching us? This book asks provocative questions about the rise of the maximum surveillance society. Is ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Surveillance, Crime and Social Control

    Edited by Dean Wilson, Clive Norris ...
    Series series International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology - Second Series
    Post 9/11 the need for an expansion of surveillance and greater expenditure on surveillance capabilities has been argued for by government and industry to help combat terrorism. This has been coupled with increasing incorporation of surveillance technologies into the routine practice of criminal justice. This important collection draws together key contemporary writings to explore how the ... Read more

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  • Surveillance, Closed Circuit Television and Social Control

    The rise of CCTV camera surveillance in Britain has been dramatic. Practically every major city now boasts a CCTV system aimed at, among other things, preventing, detecting and reducing the fear of crime. Increasingly these developments are mirrored in villages, shopping malls, residential estates, transport systems, schools and hospitals throughout the country. In short, for the majority of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Introducing Criminology

    Criminology, or the study of crime, has developed rapidly as a subject in recent years, while crime and the problem of how to respond to it have become major concerns for society as a whole. This book provides a succinct, highly readable - and much needed - introduction to criminology for those who want to learn more, whether they are already studying the subject, thinking of doing so, or just ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Unaccountable State of Surveillance

    Exercising Access Rights in Europe

    Series Book 34 - Law, Governance and Technology Series
    This book examines the ability of citizens across ten European countries to exercise their democratic rights to access their personal data. It presents a socio-legal research project, with the researchers acting as citizens, or data subjects, and using ethnographic data collection methods. The research presented here evidences a myriad of strategies and discourses employed by a range of public and ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

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    This book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative book yet published on the subject of criminal investigation, a rapidly developing area within the police and other law enforcement agencies, and an important sub discipline within police studies.The subject is rarely out of the headlines, and there is widespread media interest in criminal investigation. Within the police rapid strides are ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Understanding Police Intelligence Work

    by Adrian James ...
    Series series Key Themes in Policing
    Although police intelligence is becoming increasingly reliant on technology, it remains a human activity. This is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of police intelligence work based on current research, and to assess how intelligence may be used wisely and ethically to influence policing policy and practice.After explaining the basic tenets of intelligence, the ... Read more

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  • Researching Crime and Justice

    Tales from the Field

    This book provides an introduction to research and some of the methods in the field of crime and justice and related areas, including police, prisons and criminal justice policy making.Less a dry 'how to' book, it is concerned rather to provide a wide-ranging discussion that illustrates the kind of research that has been done in particular areas, the findings of previous studies, the pitfalls of ... Read more

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  • Technologies of InSecurity

    The Surveillance of Everyday Life

    Technologies of Insecurity examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life.Who are we afraid of in a globalizing world? How are issues of safety and security constructed and addressed by various local actors and embodied in a variety of surveillance systems? Examining ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Ethical Issues in Covert, Security and Surveillance Research

    Series Book 8 - Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The EU-funded PRO-RES Project aimed to produce a guidance framework that helps to deliver Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). PRO-RES is a Horizon 2020 project coordinated by the European Science Foundation (ESF), involving 14 different partners across Europe. As one of a series of open access products of the ... Read more

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  • Supermax

    Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement

    by Sharon Shalev ...
    This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s.Drawing on unique access to two Supermax prisons and on in-depth interviews with prison officials, prison architects, current and former prisoners, mental health professionals, penal, legal, and human ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • CCTV

    A Technology Under the Radar?

    by Inga Kroener ...
    Central state and non-covert surveillance began in earnest at the start of the twentieth century. By the start of the twenty-first century, the UK was one of the most surveilled societies on earth. This groundbreaking volume by Inga Kroener analyses the particular combination of factors that have created this surveillance state. Kroener argues against the inevitability of the rise of CCTV that is ... Read more

    $59.99 USD