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CRIME, JUSTICE AND SURVEILLANCE
A TWO-DAY
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HOSTED BY THE CENTRE FOR CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD IN ASSOCIATION WITH WWW.SURVEILLANCE-AND-SOCIETY.ORG
Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th April 2006
In the UK the last decade has seen an unprecedented deployment of surveillance technologies and practices in the name of crime control. Drug testing, electronic monitoring, intelligence led policing initiatives, DNA testing and video monitoring have all expanded rapidly. These developments are not unique to the UK, and this conference seeks to explore the British experience in the context of developments in Europe and beyond and to consider the social, political and legal issues that arise from the expansion of surveillance. The conference is inter-disciplinary with contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, criminologists, socio-legal scholars, historians, and social scientists researching surveillance practices and technologies.
Keynote Speech
Professor David Lyon
System and self: information, organization and surveillance
Themes include:
· CCTV surveillance
· Surveillance in Literature and the Media
· Geographical Information Systems
· Electronic Monitoring
· State Surveillance
· Legal Regulation, Privacy and Human rights
· Workplace surveillance
· Public acceptability of surveillance
· Surveillance Theory and Method
The conference is also truly international and with over 50 papers from eighteen countries including speakers from Belgium, Canada, Crete, Eire, Finland, Germany, Hawaii, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and the USA. Speakers include:
Nicholas Dorn Cardiff Univ., Wales
Terry Dunworth Justice Policy Centre, USA
Anita Gibbs Otago Univ., New Zealand
Hazel Kemshall De Montfort Univ., UK
Hille Koskela Helsinki Univ., Finland
Bob Lilly N. Kentucky Univ., USA
Anthony Minnaar Univ. of South Africa
Mike Nellis Strathclyde Univ., Scotland
Minas Samatas Crete Univ., Greece
Valerie Steeves Ottawa Univ., Canada
Eric Toepfer Technical Univ, Berlin
David Wall Leeds Univ., UK |
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