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Policing, Surveillance and Social Control
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Routledge
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Willan
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This book reports the result of research carried out in a busy London police station on the role and impact of closed-circuit television (CCTV) in the management and surveillance of suspects - the most thorough example of the use of CCTV by the police in the world. It focuses on the use of CCTV in a very different environment to that in which its impact has previously been studied, and draws upon... Read more
1. Background 2. The Kilburn Experiment 3. The custody suite; who are the detainees? 4. Watching and being watched 5. The view from the cells 6. We're all on camera now 7. Conclusion; policing, CCTV and social control 8. Postscript - using CCTV in the custody suite Appendix
Biography
Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is currently President of the British Society of Criminology. Tim is the author or editor of over 30 books, the most recent of which are The Politics of Crime Control (edited with Paul Rock, Oxford University Press 2006); Policy Transfer and Criminal Justice (with Trevor Jones, Open University Press 2007); and the Handbook of Criminal Investigation (co-edited with Tom Williamson and Alan Wright, Willan Publishing 2007).
