Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 A Brief History of Speed Limit Enforcement; 3 Contradictory Expert Claims about Speed Cameras; 5 Respectability, Responsibility and Resistance; 6 Experiencing Automated Enforcement; 7 Developments -- Past, Present and Future; 8 Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The Fast and The Furious: Drivers, Speed Cameras and Control in a Risk Society offers an explanation for the continued debate about one road safety intervention - the speed camera - by situating that debate within contemporary literature about the 'risk society' (Beck, 1992) and more broadly understood experiences of risk faced on a daily basis by drivers. Rather than a focus on risk as something that can be objectively assessed, measured and managed separately from the social context in which it is encountered, it suggests that 'risk' is something that permeates this particular debate from ev
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index
