The next talk in the iSchool series will feature guest speaker, Professor Clive Norris, from the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, in the UK.
His talk will outline the growth of CCTV as the primary crime prevention strategy of successive governments, and consider the evaluation evidence as to its effectiveness as a means of crime prevention and detection. The talk will then reflect the implications of the shift from face to face policing to camera mediated policing strategies for our understanding of policing and social control.
Please join us on Wednesday, January 20th, at noon, in Room 728, 140 St. George Street, at the Faculty of Information, Claude Bissell building.
About Professor Clive Norris
Professor of Sociology and Head of Department
Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
For the last decade, his research has involved documenting and analysing the increased use of surveillance in contemporary society. In particular it has focused on the police use of informants, CCTV surveillance, and surveillance in criminal justice system. He has also played a central role in establishing Surveillance Studies as a specialist field of knowledge by building the infrastructure to create a viable sub-discipline. This has informed his work in setting up: a journal - Surveillance and Society; creating an academic community of scholars the through the Surveillance Studies Network; hosting a biennial conference (held in Sheffield 2004, 2006, 2008); being awarded (with others) an ESRC seminar series, and participating in range of international collaborations, UrbanEye, 2001-2004, (Technical University of Berlin); For Whom the Bell Curves, 2005-9, (University of Trondheim); The New Transparency 2008-14; (Kingston University, Ontario), Living in Surveillance Societies (COST – University of Edinburgh 2009 – 2013).
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