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- Title
DOES THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CCTV AS A CRIME PREVENTION STRATEGY OUTWEIGH THE THREAT TO CIVIL LIBERTIES?
- Authors
Poyser, Sam
- Abstract
Video technology emerged in the 1960s, when it was used sparingly to apprehend and deter shoplifters. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the political climate slowed its introduction, with metropolitan councils remaining hostile to CCTV, on ideological, practical, and financial grounds. Although the mid-1980s saw the State begin to spread the responsibility for crime control, by the mid-1990s there were still fewer than 80 towns and cities with CCTV schemes. The uses and effectiveness of CCTV in detecting and deterring crime, and in reducing fear of crime, will now be examined and compared with arguments from a civil liberties perspective. Installing CCTV to tackle criminal and disorderly behaviour is an example of primary crime prevention or situational crime prevention.
- Subjects
CRIME prevention; VIDEO display terminals; VIDEO recording; SHOPLIFTING; RETAIL industry security measures; LARCENY; CIVIL rights
- Publication
Police Journal, 2004, Vol 77, Issue 2, p120
- ISSN
0032-258X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1350/pojo.77.2.120.39121