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Citizen spies : the long rise of America's surveillance society /

"Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital technologies used by the likes of Google, the National Security Administration, and the military. But in reality, the state and allied institutions have a much longer history of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reeves, Joshua (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Crime prevention > United States > Citizen participation.
Public safety > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Privacy & Surveillance.
Crime prevention > Citizen participation.
Public safety.
United States.
Nonfiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: seeing, saying, and civic responsibility
  • The power of the crowd : police crowdsourcing
  • Citizen equipment : the rise of 911 emergency
  • Neighborhood watching : regulating the citizens' patrol
  • Recognize, resist, report : D.A.R.E. America and the kid police
  • Terror citizenship : surveillance and civil defense
  • Conclusion: looking the other way.