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Criminology lost a world leader with the untimely death of Richard
Ericson in 2007. Ericson was one of the most prolific, influential
and widely cited criminologists of his generation, producing
monumental and pathbreaking works on how the criminal justice
system and other key institutions attempt to control crime, manage
risk and produce security. This volume, edited by three of
Professor Ericson's colleagues and co-authors, presents a sampling
of Ericson's acclaimed work on such topics as juvenile justice,
policing, the courts, the media, the insurance industry, and
national security. The book is required reading for scholars
interested in understanding the dynamics of crime, risk and
security and for those eager to learn more about one of the field's
most important and innovative researchers and scholars.
In many countries camera surveillance has become commonplace, and
ordinary citizens and consumers are increasingly aware that they
are under surveillance in everyday life. Camera surveillance is
typically perceived as the archetype of contemporary surveillance
technologies and processes. While there is sometimes fierce debate
about their introduction, many others take the cameras for granted
or even applaud their deployment. Yet what the presence of
surveillance cameras actually achieves is still very much in
question. International evidence shows that they have very little
effect in deterring crime and in 'making people feel safer', but
they do serve to place certain groups under greater official
scrutiny and to extend the reach of today's 'surveillance society'.
Eyes Everywhere provides the first international perspective on the
development of camera surveillance. It scrutinizes the quiet but
massive expansion of camera surveillance around the world in recent
years, focusing especially on Canada, the UK and the USA but also
including less-debated but important contexts such as Brazil,
China, Japan, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey. Containing both
broad overviews and illuminating case-studies, including cameras in
taxi-cabs and at mega-events such as the Olympics, the book offers
a valuable oversight on the status of camera surveillance in the
second decade of the twenty-first century. The book will be
fascinating reading for students and scholars of camera
surveillance as well as policy makers and practitioners from the
police, chambers of commerce, private security firms and privacy-
and data-protection agencies.
In many countries camera surveillance has become commonplace, and
ordinary citizens and consumers are increasingly aware that they
are under surveillance in everyday life. Camera surveillance is
typically perceived as the archetype of contemporary surveillance
technologies and processes. While there is sometimes fierce debate
about their introduction, many others take the cameras for granted
or even applaud their deployment. Yet what the presence of
surveillance cameras actually achieves is still very much in
question. International evidence shows that they have very little
effect in deterring crime and in 'making people feel safer', but
they do serve to place certain groups under greater official
scrutiny and to extend the reach of today's 'surveillance society'.
Eyes Everywhere provides the first international perspective on the
development of camera surveillance. It scrutinizes the quiet but
massive expansion of camera surveillance around the world in recent
years, focusing especially on Canada, the UK and the USA but also
including less-debated but important contexts such as Brazil,
China, Japan, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey. Containing both
broad overviews and illuminating case-studies, including cameras in
taxi-cabs and at mega-events such as the Olympics, the book offers
a valuable oversight on the status of camera surveillance in the
second decade of the twenty-first century. The book will be
fascinating reading for students and scholars of camera
surveillance as well as policy makers and practitioners from the
police, chambers of commerce, private security firms and privacy-
and data-protection agencies.
Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice takes students
through the evolution of risk technology devices, processes, and
prevention. This seminal text unpacks technology’s influence on
our understanding of governance and social order in areas of
criminal justice, policing, and security. With a foreword by
leading criminologist, Kevin Haggerty, the collection consists of
three sections that explore the impact of big data, traditional
risk practices, and the increased reliance on technology in
criminal justice. Eight chapters offer diverse examples that are
linked by themes of preventative justice, calculability of risk,
the theatre and reality of technology, and the costs of justice.
With both national and international appeal, this vital resource is
ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in criminology,
police studies, or sociology.
Canada's criminal justice landscape has been shaped by contrary
trends in recent years. As the crime rate declines, policy-makers
continue to push for tough-on-crime legislation, and university
criminology programs continue to expand. Given this context, what
does the future hold for criminal justice and criminology in the
twenty-first century? To answer this question, this book presents
the work of a new generation of researchers and thinkers in
critical criminology. The authors examine the place of criminology
in English and French Canada, the politics and ethics of criminal
justice and criminology in a conservative climate, and the role of
professors in ever-expanding criminology programs. Breaking away
from mainstream criminology and popular law-and-order discourses,
the authors offer a spectrum of approaches to criminological theory
-- from work influenced by Michel Foucault to feminist criminology,
from critical realism to anarchism -- and they propose novel
approaches to topics such as activism, genocide, white-collar
crime, and the effects of prison sentences on families. By posing
crucial questions for a new generation and attempting to define
what criminology should be, Critical Criminology in Canada: New
Voices, New Directions will shape debates about policing, crime,
and punishment for years to come.
While most research on television examines its impact on viewers,
Arresting Images asks instead how TV influences what is in front of
the camera, and how it reshapes other institutions as it broadcasts
their activities. Aaron Doyle develops his argument with four
studies of televised crime and policing: the popular American
'reality-TV' series Cops; the televising of surveillance footage
and home video of crime and policing; footage of Vancouver's
Stanley Cup riot; and the publicity-grabbing demonstrations of the
environmental group Greenpeace. Each of these studies is of
significant interest in its own right, but Doyle also uses them to
make a broader argument rethinking television's impacts. The four
studies show how televised activities tend to become more
institutionally important, tightly managed, dramatic, simplified
and fitted to society's dominant values. Powerful institutions,
like the police, harness television for their own legitimation and
surveillance purposes, often dictating which situations are
televised, and usually producing 'authorized definitions' of the
situations, which allow them to control the consequences. While
these institutions invoke the notion that 'seeing is believing' to
reinforce their positions of dominance, the book argues that many
observers and researchers have long overstated and misunderstood
the role of TV's visual component in shaping its influences.
Criminology lost a world leader with the untimely death of Richard
Ericson in 2007. Ericson was one of the most prolific, influential
and widely-cited criminologists of his generation, producing
monumental and path-breaking works on how the criminal justice
system and other key institutions attempt to control crime, manage
risk and produce security. This volume, edited by three of
Professor Ericson's colleagues and co-authors, presents a sampling
of Ericson's acclaimed work on such topics as juvenile justice,
policing, the courts, the media, the insurance industry, and
national security. This book is required reading for scholars
interested in understanding the dynamics of crime, risk and
security and for those eager to learn more about one of the field's
most important and innovative researchers and scholars.
This book presents the work of a new generation of critical
criminologists who explore the geographical, institutional, and
political contexts of the discipline in Canada. Breaking away from
mainstream criminology and law-and-order discourses, the authors
offer a spectrum of theoretical approaches to criminal justice -
from governmentality to feminist criminology, from critical realism
to anarchism - and they propose novel approaches to topics ranging
from genocide to white-collar crime. By posing crucial questions
and attempting to define what criminology should be, this book will
shape debates about crime, policing, and punishment for years to
come.
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