ABSTRACT
Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) are at the cutting edge of policing. They have sparked important conversations about the proper role and extent of police in society and about balancing security, oversight, accountability, privacy, and surveillance in our modern world. Police on Camera address the conceptual and empirical evidence surrounding the use of BWCs by police officers in societies around the globe, offering a variety of differing opinions from experts in the field.
The book provides the reader with conceptual and empirical analyses of the role and impact of police body-worn cameras in society. These analyses are complimented by invited commentaries designed to open up dialogue and generate debate on these important social issues. The book offers informed, critical commentary to the ongoing debates about the implications that BWCs have for society in various parts of the world, with special attention to issues of police accountability and discretion, privacy, and surveillance.
This book is designed to be accessible to a broad audience, and is targeted at scholars and students of surveillance, law and policy, and the police, as well as policymakers and others interested in how surveillance technologies are impacting our modern world and criminal justice institutions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section 1|40 pages
Setting the stage: Theory and practice
chapter Chapter 1|14 pages
Taking off the blinders
chapter Chapter 3|15 pages
Reading the body-worn camera as multiple
section Section 2|102 pages
Accountability and discretion
chapter Chapter 4|16 pages
Can we count on the police?
chapter Chapter 5|15 pages
The camera never lies?
chapter Chapter 6|27 pages
Does surveillance of officers lead to de-policing?
chapter Chapter 7|27 pages
Police body-worn cameras in the Canadian context
chapter Chapter 9|9 pages
Commentary: Questioning assumptions of de-policing and erasures of race
section Section 3|81 pages
Privacy and surveillance