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IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Surveillance and Crime Control: Criminological, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Emerging Pre-Crime Detection Technologies

Tildelt: kr 91 000

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Prosjektnummer:

210792

Prosjektperiode:

2012 - 2012

Technical forms of surveillance, enabled by developments in microelectronics, databases and computer networks, have increased the surveillance of our daily life. Our communications, movements and even the functioning of our bodies are constantly recorded: communications in public telecommunication networks are tracked by mandatory data retention legislation, physical movement is monitored by video in public places, while the functioning of our body is screened by devices such as security body-scanners. In Western societies, technology-enhanced surveillance has become perceived as a means of solving social problems, particularly those of crime and terrorism. There is a broad academic consensus that surveillance has been both enlarged and intensified in re cent years. It also has been described in criminological terms as supporting a pre-emptive justice model, which focuses not only on investigating accomplished crimes, but also detecting the perpetrators of crimes yet to be committed. But the contemporary surveillance studies remain culturally biased to an Anglo-American milieu. What is needed is a conceptual innovation that would address social reality of strong European welfare states and new social landscapes of transition countries in Eastern and Centr al Europe. The primary objective of the project is to identify, analyze and evaluate contemporary criminological assessments of surveillance practices. The comparative study would identify, analyze and evaluate selected surveillance domains in Norway and Slovenia: (1) traffic and critical infrastructure surveillance domain (e.g. airport and road surveillance); (2) the public telecommunications surveillance domain; (3) consumer surveillance domain; (4) border surveillance domain The final objective is t o identify and analyse diverging motives, interests and causes of surveillance domains co-ordinated for the purposes of crime control.

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IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu