TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Techno-surveillance of the roads: high impact and low interest
JO  - Crime prevention and community safety
A1  - Corbett, Claire
SP  - 1
EP  - 18
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
N2  - Road crashes and road crime are huge international problems produced by global society's increasing dependence on motorized transport. To help reduce these crash and crime statistics, roads technology is rapidly developing to prevent the former and deter the latter. This technology largely works by vehicle surveillance, and as with surveillance technology used in other arenas of crime prevention, drawbacks and dangers go along with the safety- and security-enhancing aspects. This paper reviews some key emerging roads technologies, the theoretical concerns raised by them and how, through various theoretical frameworks, they could be explored by the discipline of criminology. It urges that the surveillance aspects of road crime prevention and the study of vehicle-related crime more generally would benefit from criminological consideration and be theoretically rewarding. Moreover, in view of the centrality of the roads in contemporary life and the extent of global harm caused there, it contends that criminology should engage with this terrain.  Keywords: roads technology, vehicle-related crime, crime prevention, surveillance<p /> 
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SN  - 1460-3780
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8150054
ID  - ref1
ER  -