Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Kessler, Gabriel
Calzado, Mercedes Celina
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2007-2015
Idioma
spa
Extent
318 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
1001160
Buenos Aires (province)
2007-2015
Abstract
In the context of the consolidation of insecurity as one of the main public issues in Argentina in the last decades, monitoring of the public space with security cameras gained relevance among crime prevention policies. After several video surveillance municipal initiatives in Buenos Aires Province, the use of security cameras quickly spread to large cities as well as small and medium scale towns by the implementation of national and provincial programs. The fact that this process is the most visible form of application of new technological developments to the task of vigilance and crime control justifies the interest in their study. However, given that it is a relatively recent phenomenon in the country, research on the subject is still at an early stage.
This work contributes to an emergent regional field through the analysis of the security policies revolving monitoring of the urban public space in Buenos Aires Province. With the objective of describing the controversies surrounding video surveillance, we identified the intervenient actors and the debates that took place between 2007 and 2015, moving around three dimensions: the conflicts between security and privacy, la effectiveness of the systems, and media diffusion of the images.
In a first instance, the emergence of video surveillance in Buenos Aires Province is reconstructed, answering the issue regarding the expansion and reach of the use of security cameras for public space monitoring. In a second instance, revolving around the processes of decentralization and municipalization of the public security policies, we focus in the case of the department of Tigre. Following the actors involved and their interactions, we seek to answer another series of questions: which actors intervene in the implementation of these policies? Which are their roles and how do they interact to keep the system working? Which are the main debates regarding video surveillance? Which are the functions the actors attribute to the monitoring of the urban public space? How is their effectiveness defined? Which specific practices emerge from the implementation of these security policies? To answer these questions, we applied a qualitative methodology that combines different tools and information sources.
The thesis is deployed in six chapters, organized in two sections that respond to both research moments: in the first, the processes by which security issues began to be answered by video surveillance policies are described, focusing on the international, national and provincial layers; in the second, the findings of the local and positioned approach are presented.
This work contributes to an emergent regional field through the analysis of the security policies revolving monitoring of the urban public space in Buenos Aires Province. With the objective of describing the controversies surrounding video surveillance, we identified the intervenient actors and the debates that took place between 2007 and 2015, moving around three dimensions: the conflicts between security and privacy, la effectiveness of the systems, and media diffusion of the images.
In a first instance, the emergence of video surveillance in Buenos Aires Province is reconstructed, answering the issue regarding the expansion and reach of the use of security cameras for public space monitoring. In a second instance, revolving around the processes of decentralization and municipalization of the public security policies, we focus in the case of the department of Tigre. Following the actors involved and their interactions, we seek to answer another series of questions: which actors intervene in the implementation of these policies? Which are their roles and how do they interact to keep the system working? Which are the main debates regarding video surveillance? Which are the functions the actors attribute to the monitoring of the urban public space? How is their effectiveness defined? Which specific practices emerge from the implementation of these security policies? To answer these questions, we applied a qualitative methodology that combines different tools and information sources.
The thesis is deployed in six chapters, organized in two sections that respond to both research moments: in the first, the processes by which security issues began to be answered by video surveillance policies are described, focusing on the international, national and provincial layers; in the second, the findings of the local and positioned approach are presented.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales