Surveillance theories

Question 1

What is CCTV?

Answer 1

a modern form of the Panopticon

Question 2

What does CCTV depend on?

Answer 2

criminals believing they are being watched and being deterred by this

Question 3

What did Gill and Loveday find out?

Answer 3

very few criminals were put off by CCTV

Question 4

What is an example of the success for the CCTV?

Answer 4

identification of David Copeland, a right wing terrorist convicted of a nail-bombing campaign

Question 5

What is the real function for CCTV?

Answer 5

to reassure the public

Question 6

What did CCTV have to do with Stereotyping?

Answer 6

Norris and Armstrong found CCTV operators using racist stereotypes singling out Black youths for surveillance

Question 7

What is Surveillance creep?

Answer 7

where technology introduced for one purpose gets extended to another
ANPR failed to identify a single bomber instead identified untaxed vehicles, this was a disproportionate use of highly intrusive technology

Question 8

What is Profiling?

Answer 8

involves using data to draw up a statistical picture of likely offenders often using official crime statistics to do so

Question 9

What is an example of profiling?

Answer 9

airport security screening checks are based on offender ‘risk factors’
using information gathered about passengers they can be given a risk score. anyone scoring above a given level can be stopped questioned and searched

Question 10

is profiling effective?

Answer 10

nope!! creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, the police act on the profile by stopping Black youths more than other groups, any black youths who are actually offending are more likely to be caught than offenders from other groups, Black youths continue being over-represented in the statistics and this will seem to confirm the profile and the police will continue to target black youths -a vicious circle