Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico's War on Crime

Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico's War on Crime

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With Mexico's War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to ref...

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Main Author: Guzik, Keith (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2016
Subjects:
Sociology
Criminology: legal aspects
government policy
security systems
electronic surveillance
mexico
social control
crime prevention
Car
Identity document
Radio-frequency identification
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Summary:With Mexico's War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things-cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies-that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this novel approach to social control, Keith Guzik presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (270 p.)
ISBN:luminos.12
9780520959705
Access:Open Access

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