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CCTV as a Socio-technology

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The authors discuss CCTV, which is now established as a mature and ubiquitous technology. They review existing research on CCTV as backdrop to introduce an alternative re-narration that stresses its use as an advanced information technology—a socio-technology. Central to this perspective is the recognition that system effectiveness hinges on a match of individual, organizational and technological features which they use to explain the mixed results on CCTV effectiveness.

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Lahtinen, M., Weaver, B. (2022). CCTV as a Socio-technology. In: Gill, M. (eds) The Handbook of Security. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91735-7_31

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