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Surveillance of Public Space: CCTV, STreet Lighting and Crime Prevention (Crime Prevention Studies, vol. 10)
Kate Painter and Nick Tilley, eds.
(Paperback)
1999, 269 pages
ISBN: 1-881798-22-4
$42.50

An anthology includes nine previously unpublished studies and reviews that evaluate the uses of closed-circuit television (CCTV) and improvements to street lighting to help prevent crime in public spaces in the U.K. and elsewhere. Editors Kate Painter and Nick Tilley provide an introduction.

The papers are: "Privatopia on Trial? Property Guardianship in the Suburbs" by Tim Hope; "A Review of Street Lighting Evaluations: Crime Reduction Effects" by Ken Pease; "Street Lighting and Crime: Diffusion of Benefits in the Stoke-on-Trent Project" by Painter and David P. Farrington; "A Review of CCTV Evaluations: Crime Reduction Effects and Attitudes Towards Its Use" by Coretta Phillips; "CCTV and the Social Structuring of Surveillance" by Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong; "Evaluating a `Realistic Evaluation': Evidence from a Study of CCTV" by Martin Gill and Vicky Turbin; "Yes, It Works, No It Doesn't: Comparing the Effects of Open-Street CCTV in Two Adjacent Scottish Town Centres" by Jason Ditton and Emma Short; "Burnley CCTV Evaluation" by Rachel Armitage et al.; and "Context-Specific Measures of CCTV Effectiveness in the Retail Sector" by Adrian Bech and Andrew Willis.

A review by Prof. William E. Thornton of Loyola University in New Orleans,published in International Criminal Justice Review (2001), concludes: "In addition to being an excellent resource book on cutting-edge surveillance crime prevention techniques, the collection raises ideological and political questions regarding the use of these technologies."

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