Whilst working on my PhD I was doing some teaching at Roehampton and helped Karim Murji with some research funded by the Home Office into Safer Cities the successor to the Inner City Initiatives on which I'd worked in the mid 80s. The Safer City that I was looking at came under pressure to provide funds for CCTV so I attempted to evaluate it. This proved impossible but lead to one of the earliest engagements in criminology on CCTV - ‘As Easy as AB and CCTV’ which argues that CCTV can work but is no panacea. That conclusion still stands.
This shorter 'squib' touches more on cultural issues Human Rights in the Age of Big Brother A modernist response in a post modern Age?
And cultural issues of the ubiquity of CCTV/surveillance in popular culture and our (often) complicity with ‘Crime Control or Crime Culture TV’.
But I returned the issues of efficiency, effectiveness and economy (the old Home Office triumvirate that said 'Value for money here '.
‘Stars of CCTV? How the Home Office wasted millions - a radical ‘Treasury/Audit Commission’ view.
On a wider cultural note this article in Prison Service Journal No 168 uses Hitchcock's Rear Window to talk about surveillance and CCTV.
This shorter 'squib' touches more on cultural issues Human Rights in the Age of Big Brother A modernist response in a post modern Age?
And cultural issues of the ubiquity of CCTV/surveillance in popular culture and our (often) complicity with ‘Crime Control or Crime Culture TV’.
But I returned the issues of efficiency, effectiveness and economy (the old Home Office triumvirate that said 'Value for money here '.
‘Stars of CCTV? How the Home Office wasted millions - a radical ‘Treasury/Audit Commission’ view.
On a wider cultural note this article in Prison Service Journal No 168 uses Hitchcock's Rear Window to talk about surveillance and CCTV.