Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico's War on Crime
Guzik, Keith
Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico's War on Crime - Oakland, California University of California Press 2016 - 1 electronic resource (270 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
luminos.12 9780520959705
10.1525/luminos.12 doi
Sociology
Criminology: legal aspects
government policy security systems electronic surveillance mexico social control crime prevention Car Identity document Radio-frequency identification
Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico's War on Crime - Oakland, California University of California Press 2016 - 1 electronic resource (270 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
luminos.12 9780520959705
10.1525/luminos.12 doi
Sociology
Criminology: legal aspects
government policy security systems electronic surveillance mexico social control crime prevention Car Identity document Radio-frequency identification