Making Things Stick
Subtitle: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico?s War on Crime
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Oakland, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780520284043; 9780520959705
Subjects: Criminology: legal aspects; Sociology
Description: With Mexico?s War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things?cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies?that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this novel approach to social control, Keith Guzik presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat.
Notes: English.