CCTV is widely acknowledged to be ubiquitous in British urban areas. It therefore not surprising that its use has seeped into institutions such as the school. As it important, perhaps more than ever, able attribute an inherent value privacy and demonstrate infringement facilitated by burgeoning of technological surveillance practices could have potentially serious consequences for society. Drawing upon empirical research conducted three secondary schools United Kingdom, this paper examines...

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Understanding of the potential ‘rewards’ that residential burglars gain through their offences has largely been confined to monetary return, thus overlooking possibility offenders obtain other ‘goods’ from criminal activities. By illustrating how could be attending various lifestyle deficits crime, article reveals indicators for case management, rehabilitation and desistance. The Good Lives Model (GLM) is employed as a framework explore ‘primary human goods’ attained burglary. concludes with...

When self-service checkout (SCO) first launched in the United States 1992 there was considerable scepticism and, perhaps not surprisingly, concern that huge losses would follow. Despite conflicting evidence on their impact shrinkage, and customer theft particular, consumer-oriented payment systems are an increasingly common feature of retail environment. This paper reviews how move to SCO has affected theft. Drawing recent market research surveys suggesting up a third customers regularly...

Gaining the offender perspective is central to understanding domestic burglary, and well documented. This article presents findings from 30 semi-structured interviews with convicted burglars conducted in Greater Manchester, UK. The support dominant supposition that operate within a bounded rationality, broadly calculating reward risk commission of their offences. In addition, it was found sense abstracted morality impacted on decision making. Burglars used cognitive ‘codes practice’ which...

This article analyzes police, public, and arrestee survey responses from a single jurisdiction to give multiple-perspective insight into the use of body-worn video (BWV) cameras by police. Police attitudinal data were collected before ( n = 190), during 139), at conclusion 221) BWV implementation trial. Public attitudes trial via online 995 respondents) intercept 428 respondents). Arrestee 302) for detainees in police custody over 6-month period immediately preceding Results showed (a) all...

Drawing on findings from qualitative interviews and photo elicitation, this article explores young people’s experiences of breaches trust with social media platforms how comfort is re-established despite continual violations. It provides rich accounts users habitual relations platforms. In particular, we seek to trace the process by which online affordances create conditions in “sharing” regarded as not only routine benign but pleasurable. Rather it withholding data that abnormalized. This...

CCTV is widely acknowledged to be ubiquitous in British urban areas. However, despite its proliferation, there remains no concrete and certifiable evidence suggest that it the panacea myriad problems has been introduced tackle. The expansion of continued unperturbed by tentative, contradictory, even negative evaluation findings often produced. Despite reservations about quality methodological soundness studies those involved evaluation, inconsistency results were considered competently...

Based on interviews with convicted armed robbers, this article presents their self-reported motivations. Aside from anticipated monetary reward, some of the distinctive foreground qualities robbery, including hedonic thrills, fear arousal and control are revealed. The concept "crime as defibrillation" is introduced to account for sensory surge craved by these men counter a life systematic structural exclusion, dysphoria, lack prospect. Suffering asystole, it only most extreme risky behavior,...

Entirely absent from debates about the desirability and potential impacts of police body-worn cameras (BWCs) are views a significant group on other side lens—individuals who have recently experienced arrest by officer. In bid to redress this gap, article reports findings first study examine arrestee experiences BWCs. Data interviews with 907 detainees reveal that they largely in favour officers wearing cameras, believing can provide greater accountability improve behaviour both law...

CCTV research has historically focused on four discrete dimensions: its evaluation , the formulation of metanarrative discourses surveillance, operation and impact privacy. What consistently been missing from agenda is detailed accounts how different groups understand and attribute meaning to use CCTV, experiences technology vary by individual, group, and location. This paper seeks report views perceptions pupils teachers under visual surveillance in their schools. The findings are...

Hello Barbie tries to engage with children in intelligible and freeflowing conversation by asking responding questions, as well being able learn about its users over time [4). As Mattel's website says [1): “Just like a real friend, doll listens adapts the user's likes dislikes” [5). ToyTalk does recognize that “no security measures are perfect” no method of data transmission can ever be “guaranteed against any interception or other type misuse.”

There is increasing concern that many ex-services personnel end up in the criminal justice system. Hitherto little research has examined relationship between military service and criminal behaviour, what limited been conducted primarily focuses on serving military committing crimes times of conflict. The probation service union, Napo, conducted a survey its members 2008 to try to ascertain prevalence problem.

The use of CCTV in schools is now commonplace the UK. It estimated that 85% all UK secondary currently have systems operation. introduction Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) (enacted March 2000) meant for first time had direct legislation governing its This paper attempts to apply decree widespread technology and argues various elements statute are impractical or inappropriate educational institutions. ill‐defined vague presented DPA provides very little protection data subjects (mainly pupils...

Police organisations across the world are embracing body-worn video camera technology. The justification for this is to enhance public trust in police, provide transparency policing activity, increase police accountability, reduce conflict between and public, a perspective of incidents events. However, while corpus research into efficacy operational practicalities use cameras developing, questions on some elements their impact remain. majority scholarship has hitherto been evaluations...

Abstract Against the backdrop of what seems like a perpetual cycle crisis for policing in modern day England and Wales, this introduction synthesises some core challenges facing police. A catalogue crimes committed by serving officers, missed opportunities reform, scathing review internal culture Metropolitan Police culminating recommendation ‘complete overhaul’, might initially leave readers with view that there is little hope fixing an outdated buckling police service. Yet collection...

Anxieties relating to the health, safety and security of schoolchildren have been met with a variety surveillance apparatus in schools internationally. Drawing on findings from content analysis newspaper reports drug testing Australian schools, this article seeks excavate ways which media shapes, informs, reflects instructs narratives pertaining use acceptability surveillance. Finding that 'greater good' discourse prevails debates about contrary evidence purporting its ineffectiveness, it is...