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Privacy, Dataveillance, and Crime Prevention

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Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

Synonyms

Crime; Crime prevention; Dataveillance; Information sharing; Prevention; Privacy; Policing; Safety; Surveillance

Glossary

Privacy Law :

A series of rights that limit the ability of governments, public agencies, and private businesses to access, use, and share personal information

Dataveillance :

The systematic use of surveillance technologies and personal data to monitor human activity, including criminal behavior

Digital Assemblage :

The convergence of data obtained through discrete surveillance and information management systems to create profiles of individuals, their movements, and their behavior

ID Scanners :

Electronic devices that digitally copy and store personal identification documents as a condition for accessing goods and services

CCTV :

Closed circuit television

ICTs :

Information Communication Technologies

Risk :

The probability that harm or criminal activity will occur, which provides the foundation for various crime prevention responses

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the Criminology Research Council for funding this research under grant number 42/08–09 and Bodean Hedwards for her comments on an earlier version of this entry.

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  1. Criminology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia

    Darren Palmer & Ian Warren

  2. School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia

    Peter Miller

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Palmer, D., Warren, I., Miller, P. (2014). Privacy, Dataveillance, and Crime Prevention. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_210

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