1st Edition

Police on Camera Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability

Edited By Bryce Clayton Newell Copyright 2021
282 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) are at the cutting edge of policing. They have sparked important conversations about the proper role and extent of police in society and about balancing security, oversight, accountability, privacy, and surveillance in our modern world. Police on Camera address the conceptual and empirical evidence surrounding the use of BWCs by police officers in societies... Read more

Introduction: The Ayes Have It—Should They? Police Body-Worn Cameras

Gary T. Marx

Section 1: Setting the Stage: Theory and Practice

1. Taking Off the Blinders: A General Framework to Understand How Bodycams Work

Sander Flight

2. Theorizing Police Body-Worn Cameras

Richard Jones

3. Reading the Body-Worn Camera as Multiple: A Reconsideration of Entities as Enactments

Kathryn Henne, Jenna Harb

Section 2: Accountability and Discretion

4. Can We Count on the Police? Definitional Issues in Considering the Promise of Body Worn Cameras to Increase Police Accountability

Keith Guzik

5. The Camera Never Lies? Police Body Worn Cameras and Operational Discretion

Emmeline Taylor, Murray Lee

6. Does Surveillance of Officers Lead to De-Policing? A Block Randomized Crossover Controlled Trial on Body-Worn Cameras in Uruguay

Barak Ariel, Renée J. Mitchell, Maria Emilia Firpo, Ricardo Fraiman, Jordan M. Hyatt

7. Police Body-Worn Cameras in the Canadian Context: Policing’s New Visibility and Today’s Expectations for Police Accountability

Gregory R. Brown

8. Commentary: Accountability, Discretion, and the Questions We Ask

Amanda Glasbeek

9. Commentary: Questioning Assumptions of De-Policing and Erasures of Race: A Rejoinder to Ariel’s Study of Camera-Induced Passivity Among Traffic Police in Uruguay

Krystle Shore

Section 3: Privacy and Surveillance

10. Not Just about Privacy: Police Body-Worn Cameras and the Costs of Public Area Surveillance

Benjamin J. Goold

11. Privacy, Public Disclosure, and Police-Worn Body Camera Footage

Mary D. Fan

12. The Rise of Body-Worn Video Cameras: A New Surveillance Revolution?

William Webster, Charles Leleux

13. Commentary: A Republican and Collective Approach to the Privacy and Surveillance Issues of Bodycams

Gerard Jan Ritsema van Eck, Lotte Houwing

14. Commentary: Protecting the Rights of Citizens on Camera: Why Restricting Disclosure of Police Body Camera Footage is Better than Giving Victims Control over Recording

Katerina Hadjimatheou

Conclusion: Body Worn Cameras, Surveillance, and Police Legitimacy

Anthony A. Braga

Biography

Bryce Clayton Newell is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. His books include Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space (2019) and Privacy in Public Space (2017; both with Tjerk Timan & Bert-Jaap Koops).