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Author Coleman, Roy, 1964-

Title Reclaiming the streets : surveillance, social control, and the city / Roy Coleman
Published Cullompton ; Portland, Or. : Willan, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages)
Contents Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: 'The friendly eye in the sky'; 2 The disappearing state: social control, social order and the state; 3 Rediscovering the state: understanding camera surveillance as a social ordering practice; 4 The neoliberal city and social control; 5 From the dockyards to the Disney Store: the historical trajectory of social control in Liverpool; 6 State, partnership and power: excavating neoliberal rule in the city; 7 Reclaiming the streets: the techniques and norms of contemporary social control
8 Conclusion: visualising the neoliberal cityAppendix Interviewees; References; Index
Summary N an age of mass camera surveillance people in the UK have become the most watched, catalogued and categorised people in the western world, all with little public debate or opposition. Nor has there been much more critical research that understands CCTV within the broader social relations out of which it has grown and consolidated. The aim of this book is to analyse the use of CCTV within this broader social, political and ideological context, focusing on relations between surveillance, power and social order, using Liverpool as a case study. At the same time the book provides a study of socia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-261) and index
Notes English
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Subject Social control -- England -- Liverpool
Social control -- Great Britain
Electronic surveillance -- England -- Liverpool
Closed-circuit television -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Closed-circuit television -- Social aspects -- England -- Liverpool
Electronics in crime prevention.
Closed-circuit television -- Social aspects
Social control.
Social Control, Formal
71.65 criminality as a social problem.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Closed-circuit television -- Social aspects
Electronic surveillance
Electronics in crime prevention
Social control
Überwachung
Öffentlicher Raum
Soziale Kontrolle
Kriminalität
Prävention
Toezicht.
Camera's.
Openbare orde.
Sociale controle.
England -- Liverpool
Great Britain
Liverpool
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005298908
ISBN 9781134033676
1134033672
9781843924777
1843924773
1281331899
9781281331892
9786611331894
6611331891