Technologies of inSecurity : the surveillance of everyday life / Technologies of inSecurity [electronic resource] edited by Katja Franko Aas, Helene Oppen Gundhus and Heidi Mork Lomell - Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2009 - xi, 279 p. ; 24 cm. 1 online resource (xi, 279 p.)

"A GlassHouse book"

Includes bibliographical references and index

Mundane terror and the threat of everyday objects / Daniel Neyland -- Identification practices: state formation, crime control, colonialism and war / David Lyon -- Spatial articulations of surveillance at the FIFA World Cup 2006TM in Germany / Francisco R. Klauser -- Checkpoint security : gateways, airports and the architecture of security / Richard Jones -- 24/7/365 : mobility, locatability and the satellite tracking of offender / Mike Nelis -- Empowered watchers or disempowered workers? The ambiguities of power within technologies of security? Gavin John Douglas Smith -- Hijacking surveillance? The new moral landscapes of amateur photographing / Hille Koskela -- The role of the Internet in the twenty-first century prison: insecure technologies in secure spaces / Yvonne Jewkes -- Computer crime control as industry: virtual insecurity and the market of private policing / Majid Yar -- Technologies of surveillance and the erosion of institutional trust / Benjamin Goold -- Another side of the story: defence lawyers’ view on DNA evidence/ Johanne Yttri Dahl -- Catastrophic moral horror : torture, terror and rights / Viday Halvors


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Internal security
Security systems
Security (Psychology)