Dean Wilson

University of Sussex, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, Faculty Member

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The New Platform Policing

Automating Crime Prevention, Surveillance, and Military Operations, 2021

The infusion of information technologies within policing ecologies has accelerated since 2008. Fr... more The infusion of information technologies within policing ecologies has accelerated since 2008. Frequently this is couched in the language of efficiency and of enabling police agencies to do more with less. While engaging various models including the notion of software as a service, the valence is towards cloud-based information architectures that infuse police organizations and which meld together disparate sources of data into modulated flows of maximal utility. While much is made in marketing materials to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, these new digital policing ecologies have genealogies in calculation, computerization and management science. This chapter examines the emergence of ‘platform policing’, arguing that it draws upon socio-technical imaginaries of efficient and cost-effective law enforcement that have their origins in the US context of the 1960s. Platform policing envisages police agencies that are lithe, flexible and perpetually reconfigured. Importantly, it also envisages policing as a key consumer and co-producer within ‘platform capitalism’, rendering police agencies key nodes in processes of capital accumulation

‘Well-set-up men’: respectable masculinity and police organizational culture in Melbourne 1853–c. 1920

A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010, 2012

Introduction: Victims Research, Theory and Policy: The Role of Local Contexts

Histories of policing

Surveillance, Crime and Social Control

Surveillance, Crime and Social Control, 2017

Contents: Series preface Introduction. Part I Theory: I'll be watching you: reflections on th... more Contents: Series preface Introduction. Part I Theory: I'll be watching you: reflections on the new surveillance, Gary T. Marx Bentham's Panopticon: from moral architecture to electronic surveillance, David Lyon Postscript on the societies of control. Gilles Deleuze The viewer society: Michel Foucault's Panopticon revisited, Thomas Mathiesen The surveillant assemblage, Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson. Part II CCTV: CCTV and the social structuring of surveillance, Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong 'You'll never walk alone': CCTV surveillance, order and neo-liberal rule in Liverpool city centre, Roy Coleman and Joe Sim Seen and now heard: talking to the targets of open-street CCTV, Emma Short and Jason Ditton The eyes have it: CCTV as the '5th utility' , S. Graham) Yes it works - no it doesn't: comparing the effects of open-street CCTV in 2 adjacent Scottish town centres, Jason Ditton and Emma Short State surveillance and the right to privacy, Nick Taylor Video surveillance, gender and the safety of public urban space: 'Peeping Tom' goes high tech, Hille Koskela. Part III Undercover Police Surveillance: Undercover policing in Canada: wanting what is wrong, Jean-Paul Brodeur Towards a sociological model of the police informant, Steven Greer Subterranean blues: conflict as an unintended consequence of the police use of informers, Clive Norris and Colin Dunnighan Snitching and the code of the street, Richard Rosenfeld, Bruce A. Jacobs and Richard Wright. Part IV Bodies, Databases and Technologies: The body and the archive, Allan Sekula The electronic panopticon: a case study of the development of the National Criminal Records System, Diana R. Gordon Critique: no soul in the machine: technofallacies in the electronic monitoring movement, Ronald Corbett and Gary T. Marx News media, popular culture and the electronic monitoring of offenders in England and Wales, Mike Nellis Written on the body: biometrics and identity, Irma van der Pleog Governanc

Policing intimate partner violence in Victoria (Australia): Examining police attitudes and the potential of specialisation

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 2016

The adequacy of police responses to intimate partner violence has long animated scholarly debate,... more The adequacy of police responses to intimate partner violence has long animated scholarly debate, review and legislative change. While there have been significant shifts in community recognition of and concern about intimate partner violence, particularly in the wake of the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence, it nonetheless remains a significant form of violence and harm across Australian communities and a key issue for police, as noted in the report and recommendations of the Royal Commission. This article draws on findings from semi-structured interviews (n = 163) with police in Victoria and pursues two key inter-related arguments. The first is that police attitudes towards incidents of intimate partner violence remain overwhelmingly negative. Despite innovations in policy and training, we suggest that this consistent dissatisfaction with intimate partner violence incidents as a policing task indicates a significant barrier, possibly insurmountable, to attempts to ref...

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Researching CCTV: Security networks and the transformation of public space

Proceedings of the 2008 critical criminology …, 2008

This paper charts some of the directions that have emerged in the study of CCTV in the past decad... more

Border militarization, technology and crime control

The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration, 2017

Community and Gender in Victorian Auckland

The Shaping of History, 2001

Why Has It Only become an Issue Now?": Young Drug Users' Perceptions of Drug Driving in Melbourne, Victoria

Youth Studies Australia, 2010

Preliminary research into drug-user perceptions of drug driving was undertaken with a sample grou... more Preliminary research into drug-user perceptions of drug driving was undertaken with a sample group of drug users aged 18 to 24 from Melbourne, Victoria. Eleven males and nine females participated in semi-structured interviews and completed self-report surveys. Participants discussed their drug driving and their perceptions of the likelihood of detection by police for drug driving. This research provides further insight into young people's perceptions and behaviours in relation to drug use and driving. The perspectives of young people are rarely included in current drug-driving debates and may have possible implications for policy development.

Crime, victims and policy: international contexts, local experiences

Crime, Victims and Policy brings together the work of leading international scholars to examine h... more Crime, Victims and Policy brings together the work of leading international scholars to examine how the experiences of victims of crime, and the the formulations of policies and theory that impact upon them, are translated and experienced within specific local contexts. The collection examines questions of key concern to scholars interested in the contexts and experiences of victims of crime both within and beyond the criminal justice systems.

The New Platform Policing

Victims Research, Theory and Policy: The Role of Local Contexts Introduction