Digital technology now plays a critical role in policing and security management, with
policing apps, drones and body-worn cameras potentially being game-changers. Adoption …

Video surveillance systems (VSS), used as a measure of security strengthening as well as
investigation, are provided principally in heavily crowded public places. They record images …

It is a pertinent time to reflect upon the use of CCTV. As some areas withdraw funding from
their CCTV systems, others are expanding coverage and upgrading to Intelligent CCTV …

Videoconference technology allows interactions between citizens and their governments to
be managed without systematic co‐presence. It is a relatively discrete innovation, which has …

Efforts to install crime cameras in public are sometimes met with resistance from segments of
the community who raise concerns over personal privacy. Drawing on an example from Las …

This essay examines 'smart city'initiatives rapidly emerging across Eurasia that are aimed at
the surveillance of disorderly and criminal behaviour in public spaces. They are a result of …

This article deals with a paradox: video surveillance becomes widespread, in more and
more numerous social and national spaces, while its effects in terms of crime prevention …

The London Riots of August 2011 were notable for the prominence of closed-circuit
television (CCTV) images of offenders in investigation and prosecution, and in social media …

The article theorizes surveillance and affect in the context of urban security policy.
Surveillance, as commonly understood, provides the means to “know” a person or a …

Over the past 30 years, CCTV has spread through many countries all around the world and
been used in a growing variety of locations: first in private zones like banks and car parks …