{"product_id":"the-infrastructures-of-security-martin-murray-9780472055470","title":"The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg","description":"Much of the South African government's response to crime--especially in Johannesburg--has been to rely increasingly on technology. This includes the widespread use of video cameras, Artificial Intelligence, machine-learning, and automated systems, effectively replacing human watchers with machine watchers. The aggregate effect of such steps is to determine who is, and isn't, allowed to be in public spaces--essentially another way to continue segregation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Infrastructures of Security\u003c\/i\u003e, author Martin J. Murray concentrates on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and automated information systems, but also the introduction of somewhat bizarre and fly-by-night experimental \"answers\" to perceived risk and danger. Digitalized surveillance is significant for two reasons: first, it enables monitoring to take place across wide \"geographical distances with little time delay\"; and second, it allows for the active sorting, identification, and \"tracking of bodies, behaviors, and characteristics of subject populations on a continuous, real-time basis.\" These new software-based surveillance technologies represent monitoring, tracking, and information gathering without walls, towers, or guards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Murray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 047205547X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472055470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.94d","brand":"Martin Murray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070731743487,"sku":"9780472055470","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f88ebb54-cd72-4d91-9a67-c4efa8368463.jpg?v=1685432039","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-infrastructures-of-security-martin-murray-9780472055470","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}