CCTV and Policing

• Presents findings from the first major empirical study of police use of CCTV in Britain
• Challenges mainstream thinking about how the police use surveillance technologies
• Engages with the issue of privacy rights and public spaces
• Includes a reconsideration of existing British and European privacy law and how may be applied to emerging surveillance technologies like CCTV

Readership: Legal academics, criminologists, sociologists and civil libertarians concerned with surveillance and social control, as well as those working in police studies. Of interest to legal academics concerned with questions of human rights, constitutional law, public law, and criminal evidence. Also perhaps of interest to senior police administrators, local government officials, crime prevention agencies, and sections of the private security industry engaged in public area surveillance.

Benjamin J. Goold, Fellow and Tutor in Law, Somerville College, University of Oxford

"CCTV and Policing is a rigorous piece of work that sheds fascinating light on a subject too little discussed, and it deserves to be read far outside the realm of academic criminology, especially by those concerned about civil liberties." - Times Higher Education Supplement

1: Under Surveillance
2: Research Methods
3: Playing 'Little Brother'
4: Going by the Codes
5: Working Together?
6: Choosing Targets
7: The Effect of CCTV on Policing
8: Conclusions