Title

Cctv And Citizen Guardianship Suppression: A Questionable Proposition

Keywords

CCTV; citizen guardianship; public surveillance; surveillance cameras

Abstract

An untested hypothesis regarding closed-circuit television (CCTV) is that the use of CCTV surveillance systems causes the loss of informal citizen guardianship activities in camera-surveilled public spaces. This hypothesized effect is empirically tested in two ways. In the first approach, an examination of survey responses between respondents who were aware, without prompting, of a public space surveillance camera system (24.4% of the respondents) and those who were not aware of the cameras is undertaken. The expectation is that preexisting knowledge of the cameras will be associated with attitudes associated with a self-reported reduced willingness to exercise guardianship actions. In the second approach, time series data sets of calls for service in a CCTV-surveilled area and a comparison control zone are examined. Neither method revealed empirical evidence of a degrading of informal citizen guardianship activities following the installation of CCTV cameras. © 2006, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Publication Title

Police Quarterly

Volume

9

Issue

1

Number of Pages

100-125

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/1098611105278328

Socpus ID

84993661270 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84993661270

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