The local impact of police videosurveillance on the social construction of security

Technocrime: Technology, Crime and Social Control

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 27-45

  Leman Langlois, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 84925702526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781843925378     Document Type: Chapter

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