Policing at a distance and that human thing: An appreciative critique of police surveillance
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Policing at a distance and that human thing : An appreciative critique of police surveillance. / Sausdal, David Brehm.
In: Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, Vol. 2019, No. 85, 2019, p. 51-64.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Policing at a distance and that human thing
T2 - An appreciative critique of police surveillance
AU - Sausdal, David Brehm
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Policing technologies are increasingly being developed to surveil and control people from afar. This is especially true in relation to cross-border crimes and other global threats where the necessity of monitoring such illegal flows is often advocated. In the literature, this is sometimes referred to as “policing at a distance,” signifying how the growth in different policing technologies is allowing police to oversee people without coming into physical contact with them. Overall, scholars find this development alarming. It is alarming because it reduces human lives to data points and because studies have shown how policing at a distance may trigger hateful police attitudes. With these problems of policing at a distance in mind, this article explores how an increasing use of surveillance technologies affects Danish detectives.
AB - Policing technologies are increasingly being developed to surveil and control people from afar. This is especially true in relation to cross-border crimes and other global threats where the necessity of monitoring such illegal flows is often advocated. In the literature, this is sometimes referred to as “policing at a distance,” signifying how the growth in different policing technologies is allowing police to oversee people without coming into physical contact with them. Overall, scholars find this development alarming. It is alarming because it reduces human lives to data points and because studies have shown how policing at a distance may trigger hateful police attitudes. With these problems of policing at a distance in mind, this article explores how an increasing use of surveillance technologies affects Danish detectives.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - (de)humanization
KW - critizue
KW - cross-border crime
KW - policing (at a distance)
KW - surveillance
U2 - 10.3167/fcl.2019.850105
DO - 10.3167/fcl.2019.850105
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2019
SP - 51
EP - 64
JO - Focaal
JF - Focaal
SN - 0920-1297
IS - 85
ER -
ID: 201787987