Montag 14. of Juni 2010

Phoenix from the Ashes? Urban CCTV Surveillance in Crisis

In face of the global recession capitalism was recently suspected to be the "biggest enemy of surveillance" (Murakami Wood 2009) as operating costs of public area CCTV are cut back and an increasing number of cameras is left...
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Phoenix from the Ashes? Urban CCTV Surveillance in Crisis


Category: Policing the Crisis, Abstracts

Freitag 11. of September 2009

Eric Töpfer: Video Surveillance as Crime Prevention? Appeal to Change the Perspective

CCTV - Image showing work of an graffiti artist in London who went undetected despite cameras all around What follows is the english abstract of a paper which in its german version will appear in Kriminologisches Journal 4, 2009.
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Eric Töpfer: Video Surveillance as Crime Prevention? Appeal to Change the Perspective


Category: Security, Surveillance, Abstracts & Papers

Freitag 23. of März 2007

Eric Töpfer, Frank Helten (2005): CCTV surveillance in France: Marianne and her Big Brothers

Missing Image: CCTV Since the late 1980s France is experiencing a rise of CCTV which puts an increasing number of cities under visual surveillance. In 2005 nearly 300 municipalities were operating an open street CCTV system. Eric Töpfer and Frank...
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Eric Töpfer, Frank Helten (2005): CCTV surveillance in France: Marianne and her Big Brothers


Category: Security, Abstracts & Papers, Presentations