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Crime, Security and Surveillance Effects for the surveillant and the surveilled.

Call for abstracts.

Working group 1 examines citizens’ everyday experiences of, and attitudes towards surveillance of both the surveilled and the surveillants. The central theme of this publication is Crime, security and the surveillance society. The connecting issue of this publication is the impact of surveillance on the surveillant andthe surveilled.

The contributions should aim to reflect on such impacts on either or both „sides“ of surveillance practices in relation to security measures, a particular form of securitisation of a social, cultural or political aspect - or at the consequences of technologies employed in the course of a surveillance or security practice.

It should be important to especially highlight all aspects that go beyond the usual perspectives of „does it work?“ or „is there a panoptic effect?“ Contributions that reflect on the (social) relations between different actors in surveillance settings, practices or regimes are especially welcome.

Thematic suggestions for contributions:

Illegal / transit migration and the experience of surveillance: eg. the case of Calais / the case of Greece / the case of Italy / the case of Oostende
Neighbourhood surveillance and social exclusion
CCTV cameras and the impact on feelings of insecurity
the experience of surveillance in the workplace: are employees aware of surveillance, what are the consequences of workplace surveillance?
surveillance in the financial sector / in a commercialenvironment: the way people are watched
Preventing shoplifting at any price: the Dutch case

The securitisation of social confli

the securitisation of ecology
the criminalisation of youngsters in the urban environment and the impact on surveillance

New surveillance techniques and the effects

biometrics and the effects for privacy / inclusion / exclusion
the digitalisation: more CCTV and more sophisticated CCTV, …

Deadline for abstracts: 9 August (abstracts will be selected before the 1st of September We expect an abstract of 500 words in which you explain the main issue, the relation to “Crime, Security and Surveillance Effects for the surveillant and the surveilled” and the structure of your contribution.

Please send the abstract to both editors:

nils.zurawski(at)unihamburg.de and Gudrun.VandeWalle(at)hogent.be

The comparative character: a few years ago the publisher Boom started the new publication series, Groene Gras mainly oriented to criminological comparative contributions. The book series is multi-disciplinary but with a prominent space for criminologists.

Editors: Nils Zurawski (University of Hamburg) Gudrun Vande Walle (University College Ghent).

Timetable for the book