ABSTRACT
Following the London subway bombings in July 2005, closed-circuit television surveillance (CCTV) became an international object of political and public interest when images of the bombers were broadcast around the world. What was particularly striking about the media coverage on public CCTV surveillance was the shift in crime control discourses from prevention to capture. That is, CCTV surveillance was not represented primarily as a technology capable of preventing or deterring crime, as it had been for years, but rather it was identified as the central means by which criminals/terrorists could be identified, targeted and, if they remained alive, apprehended.
