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Book Synopsis
Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and automated information systems, but also the introduction of somewhat bizarre and fly-by-night experimental ‘answers’ to perceived risk and danger.

Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One
  • Policing the Post-Liberal City: Paradoxes and Contradictions
  • Chapter Two
  • Johannesburg in the Geographic Imagination: Agoraphobia and other Obsessions
  • Chapter Three
  • Vulnerable Bodies: Self-Protection in a Risky World
  • Chapter Four
  • The Surveillant Assemblage: The Hyper-panoptic Imagination
  • Chapter Five
  • The CCTV ‘Revolution’
  • [With Nicky Falkof]
  • Chapter Six
  • Colliding Worlds in Micrososm
  • Chapter Seven
  • Security by Design: Spatial Management in the Hypermodern City
  • Epilogue Introduction
  • Epilogue 1
  • Jane Alexander Security Exhibition
  • Epilogue 2
  • Mosquito Lightning
  • [Carla Busuttil and Gary Charles]
  • Bibliography

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472075478, 978-0472075478
      ISBN10: 0472075470
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      Urban and municipal planning and policy Causes and prevention of crime International relations

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and automated information systems, but also the introduction of somewhat bizarre and fly-by-night experimental ‘answers’ to perceived risk and danger.

      Table of Contents
      • Table of Contents
      • Abbreviations
      • List of Illustrations
      • Acknowledgments
      • Preface
      • Introduction
      • Chapter One
      • Policing the Post-Liberal City: Paradoxes and Contradictions
      • Chapter Two
      • Johannesburg in the Geographic Imagination: Agoraphobia and other Obsessions
      • Chapter Three
      • Vulnerable Bodies: Self-Protection in a Risky World
      • Chapter Four
      • The Surveillant Assemblage: The Hyper-panoptic Imagination
      • Chapter Five
      • The CCTV ‘Revolution’
      • [With Nicky Falkof]
      • Chapter Six
      • Colliding Worlds in Micrososm
      • Chapter Seven
      • Security by Design: Spatial Management in the Hypermodern City
      • Epilogue Introduction
      • Epilogue 1
      • Jane Alexander Security Exhibition
      • Epilogue 2
      • Mosquito Lightning
      • [Carla Busuttil and Gary Charles]
      • Bibliography

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