Technologies of inSecurity [electronic resource] : the surveillance of everyday life / edited by Katja Franko Aas, Helene Oppen Gundhus and Heidi Mork Lomell.

'A GlassHouse book.'

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mundane terror and the threat of everyday objects / Daniel Neyland -- Identification practices: state formation, crime control, colonialism and war / David Lyon -- Spatial articulations of surveillance at the FIFA World Cup 2006TM in Germany / Francisco R. Klauser -- Checkpoint security : gateways, airports and the architecture of security / Richard Jones -- 24/7/365 : mobility, locatability and the satellite tracking of offender / Mike Nelis -- Empowered watchers or disempowered workers? The ambiguities of power within technologies of security? Gavin John Douglas Smith -- Hijacking surveillance? The new moral landscapes of amateur photographing / Hille Koskela -- The role of the Internet in the twenty-first century prison: insecure technologies in secure spaces / Yvonne Jewkes -- Computer crime control as industry: virtual insecurity and the market of private policing / Majid Yar -- Technologies of surveillance and the erosion of institutional trust / Benjamin Goold -- Another side of the story: defence lawyers' view on DNA evidence/ Johanne Yttri Dahl -- Catastrophic moral horror : torture, terror and rights / Viday Halvorsen.