Video surveillance [[electronic resource] ] : power and privacy in everyday life / / Bilge Yesil

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456689203321
• Autore: Yesil Bilge <1973->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009
• ISBN: 1-59332-576-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (175 p.)
• Collana: Law and society
• Disciplina: 363.2/32
• Soggetti: Video surveillance - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.149-165) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Surveillance and the city -- Reading, writing and surveillance -- Understanding privacy -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Yesil proposes that video surveillance is not a novel technology specific to the post-September 11 era, but that it can be historicized within crime prevention and risk management initiatives going back to the 1970's. Analyzing press coverage, security industry statements, and federal agency and law enforcement reports, Yesil discusses this visual technique of knowing and communicating as part of the larger culture of control, and she situates it in the broader processes of rationalization and normalization. Based on interviews with police officers, school administrators, students and private...