Jun 14, 2010Security, Conferences, 2010, Abstracts, CCTV

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...

Sep 11, 2009Security, CCTV

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

What follows is the english abstract of a paper which in its german version will appear in Kriminologisches Journal 4, 2009.

Mar 23, 2007Security, Surveillance, CCTV

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

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...

Aug 06, 2006Conferences, 2006, Security, CCTV, Surveillance

Eric Töpfer:Unleashed: The World Cup 2006 as Catalyst

Public area CCTV has become an essential strategy of space control and criminal justice in the post-Fordist entrepreneurial city and the neoliberal...