Police on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability (Routledge Studies in Surveillance) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367562138 ISBN 13: 9780367562137

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) are at the cutting edge of policing. They have sparked important conversations about the proper role and extent of police in society and about balancing security, oversight, accountability, privacy, and surveillance in our modern world. Police on Camera address the conceptual and empirical evidence surrounding the use of BWCs by police officers in societies around the globe, offering a variety of differing opinions from experts in the field.

The book provides the reader with conceptual and empirical analyses of the role and impact of police body-worn cameras in society. These analyses are complimented by invited commentaries designed to open up dialogue and generate debate on these important social issues. The book offers informed, critical commentary to the ongoing debates about the implications that BWCs have for society in various parts of the world, with special attention to issues of police accountability and discretion, privacy, and surveillance.

This book is designed to be accessible to a broad audience, and is targeted at scholars and students of surveillance, law and policy, and the police, as well as policymakers and others interested in how surveillance technologies are impacting our modern world and criminal justice institutions.

About this title

About the Author

Bryce Clayton Newell is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. His books include Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space (2019) and Privacy in Public Space (2017; both with Tjerk Timan & Bert-Jaap Koops).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367562138
• ISBN 13: 9780367562137
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282
• Editor: Newell Bryce Clayton