Video Surveillance and Social Control in a Comparative Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415628600)

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.

Author: Fredrika Bjklund
ISBN-10: 0415628601
ISBN-13: 9780415628600
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2012
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d