Monday 14. of June 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

Friday 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

Friday 10. of August 2007

Don't use the G-Word: Criminalization of critical academic research in Germany

Picture inside Maze Prison We learned last week that two of our friends and colleagues, Andrej H. and Mathias B., are charged with “membership in a terrorist association according to § 129a StGB” (German Penal Code, section 7 on ‘Crimes against Public...
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Don't use the G-Word: Criminalization of critical academic research in Germany


Category: Repression

Friday 23. of March 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

Sunday 06. of August 2006

Eric Töpfer:Unleashed: The World Cup 2006 as Catalyst

Missing picture of a lot of surveillance cameras Public area CCTV has become an essential strategy of space control and criminal justice in the post-Fordist entrepreneurial city and the neoliberal competitive state: In symbolic terms it is used to appease revanchist middle...
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Eric Töpfer:Unleashed: The World Cup 2006 as Catalyst


Category: Presentations