cctv

CCTV is a very expensive way to memorialise signal crimes. As an ex Home Office civil servant I am embarrased at its lack of efficiency, effectiveness and economy. However, as a cultured criminologist I am also interested in its acceptance by society and within popular culture.

Articles

This article (co-written with Karim Murji) from research in 1993 for the Home Office is still true today. 'As Easy as AB and CCTV' Policing 10(4)

This article is shorter and touches on human rights and popular cultural issues. It comes from a collection for the Howard League edited by me.

This article in the founding issue of the online journal Surveillance and Society concentrates on the cultural issues and treats CCTV as a media to which feminist film theory and cultural theories can be applied. Hitchcock'sRear Windowand even The Simpsons get a mention.

As I had not worked on CCTV issues for some time I was enraged to discover HO research still finding CCTV was 'no panacea' (see first article) and not citing me; so wrote this riposte.

Cited in these articles by journalists on the topic The Big Issue and Wired.