Video Surveillance and Social Control in a Comparative Perspective (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Björklund, Fredrika; Svenonius, Ola

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video surveillance as technologically mediated social control is affected by national characteristics, with a specific concern for recent political history. The book is motivated by asking what makes video surveillance "tick" in three very different cultural settings, two of which (Poland and Sweden) are virtually unexplored in the literature on surveillance. The selection of countries is motivated by an interest in societies with recent experiences of authoritarianism, and how they respond to the global trend towards intensified technical means of control. With thorough empirical studies, the book constitutes an important contribution to security studies, surveillance studies, and post-communist area studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136182013
• Artikelnr.: 38265901

Autorenporträt

Fredrika Björklund is Associate Professor in Political Science at Södertörn University. Ola Svenonius is a Political Science lecturer at Södertörn University and a PhD candidate at the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) and Stockholm University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Video Surveillance in a Comparative Perspective: Introduction Fredrika
Björklund and Ola Svenonius Section I: Comparative Studies 2.
Modernisation, Balancing Interests and Citizens' Rights: Public Video
Surveillance in Poland, Germany and Sweden Fredrika Björklund 3. Video
Surveillance in a Historical Perspective Ola Svenonius 4. The Protection of
Privacy in the Context of Video Surveillance: Towards a European Model?
Patricia Jonason Section II: Case Studies 5. Video Surveillance and the
Question of Trust Wojciech Szrubka 6. How Effective is the Public Video
Surveillance System in Warsaw? Pawe¿ Waszkiewicz 7. From Privacy Protection
Towards Affirmative Regulation: The Politics of Police Surveillance in
Germany Eric Töpfer 8. Pressure of the Practice: Swedish Public
Surveillance in an Institutional Perspective Elfar Loftsson