STORRE Collection: Electronic copies of Faculty of Social Sciences book reviews.Electronic copies of Faculty of Social Sciences book reviews.http://hdl.handle.net/1893/115462024-03-18T18:21:08Z2024-03-18T18:21:08ZBook Review Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn CamerasMiranda, Dianahttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/344772022-07-06T00:03:19Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Book Review Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras
Author(s): Miranda, Diana
Abstract: First paragraph: “Civilizing police-citizen interaction” has been the main motivation to implement BWCs (particularly in the US). However, as argued by Bryce Clayton Newell, despite the association of body-worn cameras (BWCs) to notions of police accountability and transparency, these technologies also “sparked outrage” and have increased police power and police-citizen divisions (p. 1). ‘Police Visibility’ is a much well-needed reflective book that deconstructs common ‘pro-camera’ narratives focused on BWCs as accountability and transparency tools to “the benefit of the public”. As stated by Newell, “in practice (…) these cameras serve the coercive aims of the state” (p. 2). By challenging common conceptions of BWCs as objective and transparent, the author develops an argument on how to regulate these cameras and their footage. From limiting the potential for BWCs to increase police power to enhancing access to information by the public, there is a focus in the book on the need for regulation of police surveillance powers. This analysis is supported by theories of freedom and the notion of “antipower” (Pettit, 1996) that situate these cameras as potentially leading to state domination. Indeed, the adoption of BWCs is “largely about the state managing its image and controlling its visibility to the public” (p. 15).2022-01-01T00:00:00ZBook review: Conor O’Reilly (ed.), Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global Dynamics of Policing across the Lusophone CommunityRogers, Ashleyhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/342772022-05-10T00:01:25Z2019-02-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Book review: Conor O’Reilly (ed.), Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global Dynamics of Policing across the Lusophone Community
Author(s): Rogers, Ashley
Abstract: First paragraph: Traces of the past are found in the present, in the continued (re)construction of identities and in practices built around them. Explorations of these legacies offered in O’Reilly’s edited collection provide valuable insights into not only colonial policing and its development over time in Lusophone communities, but of its relevance to policing today. O’Reilly not only draws together social, political and historical examples from across the Lusophone community, but throughout the book’s three sections, each contribution charts the development of policing culture, transnational policy exchanges and the construction of subjects through a continued colonial lens. Doing so provides us with a rare engagement with colonialism, identity and policing across the Portuguese Empire.2019-02-01T00:00:00ZMachado, Helena; Prainsack, Barbara (2014), Tecnologias que incriminam. Olhares de reclusos na era do CSIMiranda, Dianahttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/342102022-04-29T00:02:48Z2015-09-04T00:00:00ZTitle: Machado, Helena; Prainsack, Barbara (2014), Tecnologias que incriminam. Olhares de reclusos na era do CSI
Author(s): Miranda, Diana
Abstract: First paragraph: Tecnologias que incriminam. Olhares de reclusos na era do CSI, de Helena Machado e Barbara Prainsack, publicado originalmente em inglês (Tracing Technologies – Prisoners’ Views in the Era of CSI) pela editora Ashgate, explora as representações em torno das tecnologias forenses do ponto de vista de indivíduos condenados a pena de prisão pela prática de crime. O enfoque nas perspetivas deste grupo social em concreto é particularmente inovador e esta é a primeira obra a examinar o modo como os reclusos experienciam as tecnologias usadas na cena de crime na era do CSI, seus significados e efeitos. Tal como refere Troy Duster no prefácio, é “[ampliada] a voz daqueles que até agora têm sido aparte silenciosa desse processo” (p. 18).2015-09-04T00:00:00ZBook review: Anastasia Chamberlen, Embodying Punishment: Emotions, Identities, and Lived Experiences in Women’s PrisonsMiranda, Dianahttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/341012022-03-31T00:05:40Z2020-11-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Book review: Anastasia Chamberlen, Embodying Punishment: Emotions, Identities, and Lived Experiences in Women’s Prisons
Author(s): Miranda, Diana
Abstract: First paragraph: Sykes’ (1958) seminal work has inspired several scholars to explore the long-lasting effects and pains of imprisonment (see, for instance, Crewe, 2011; Liebling and Maruna, 2005). Sixty years after the publication of The Society of Captives, Chamberlen’s book gives voice to the punished bodies in order to comprehend the lived experience of imprisonment. This book provides a much-needed reflection on how imprisonment is experienced through the body and the effects it has on women’s lives and identities. By reflecting on the subjective understanding of women’s experiences in prisons, the author portrays punishment as an embodied and gendered experience. Indeed, the bodies are central as they ‘materially and physically sense and feel punishment’ (p. 56).2020-11-01T00:00:00Z