Title :

The Legitimization of CCTV as a Policy Tool: Genesis and Stabilization of a Socio-Technical Device in Three French Cities

Author(s) :

Douillet, Anne-Cecile [Auteur]
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales - UMR 8026 [CERAPS]
Dumoulin, Laurence [Auteur]
Germain, Séverine [Auteur]

Journal title :

British Journal of Criminology

Volume number :

52

Pages :

294-308

Publisher :

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Publication date :

2012

ISSN :

0007-0955

Keyword(s) :

CCTV
Surveillance
Actor-Network Theory
Crime prevention
Legitimization
Social uses
Case studies

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique

English abstract : [en]

This article deals with the widespread use of open-street close-circuit television (CCTV) systems as a safety policy tool in French cities. To investigate this diffusion, we suggest tackling CCTV as a socio-technical device ...
Show more >This article deals with the widespread use of open-street close-circuit television (CCTV) systems as a safety policy tool in French cities. To investigate this diffusion, we suggest tackling CCTV as a socio-technical device able to enrol allies beyond the initial circle of technology promoters, including former opponents. Through an empirical analysis of three case studies, we show that a device can spread on a site provided that the actors in charge of the device appropriate it and discover new practical uses. As appropriation practices give CCTV supporters new arguments to justify its use, CCTV is therefore more legitimized by the possible combinations of different arguments and uses than by its strictly speaking effectiveness to fight against crime.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

CNRS
Université de Lille

Collections :

• Centre d'Études et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales (CERAPS) - UMR 8026

Submission date :

2019-10-29T11:37:03Z
2021-06-07T06:31:39Z