The Surveillance Web
Subtitle: The Rise of Visual Surveillance in an English City
Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK); Willan Pub.
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781903240809
Subjects: Causes & prevention of crime; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Law; England; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Social Science; Political Science; Forensic Science; Electronic surveillance; General; Closed-circuit television; Crime prevention
First sentence: One of the central themes in recent sociological debates on surveillance and social control concerns the issue of whether the advent of modern video, computer and telecommunications systems have given rise to a new surveillance, qualitatively different from that which existed before (Marx, 1988; Lyon, 1994).
Description: The rise of CCTV has been one of the key developments in modern society, but its impact has often been analysed in a fragmented manner. This book addresses this issue by providing an account of the construction of a CCTV network in one English city.